Newsgroups: comp.parallel.mpi
From: lederman@romano.cs.wisc.edu (Steve Huss-Lederman)
Subject: MPI-2 BOF at SC'96
Organization: CS Department, University of Wisconsin
Date: 07 Nov 1996 22:43:36 GMT
Message-ID: <LEDERMAN.96Nov7164336@romano.cs.wisc.edu>

This is to announce that there will be a Birds-of-a-Feather about
MPI-2 at Supercomputing '96.  The session will be from 3:30-5:30 on
Wednesday, November 20, in the Washington Room (which is located in
the DoubleTree Hotel).  The session will consist of an overview of the
current thinking in the MPI-2 standards effort and will be followed by
an opportunity for public comment.  The current draft of the proposed
MPI-2 standard is available at http://www.mcs.anl.gov/mpi by following
the links.  With the release of this version, a formal public comment
period begins.  It is anticipated that the final version of the MPI-2
standard will be released in May 1997.

Hope to see you there.

The MPI Forum

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Abstract of the MPI-2 document:

This document describes the efforts of the MPI Forum to enhance the
original MPI standard.  Known as MPI-2, this effort began in March
1995.  A draft version of the document is being released for public
input at Supercomputing '96.  The final version is anticipated in May
1997.  The document has three parts: MPI-1.2, MPI-2, and MPI Journal
of Development.  Topics being explored for inclusion in MPI-2 are
dynamic processes, one-sided communications, extended collective
operations, external interfaces, additional language bindings,
miscellaneous topics, and I/O.

