Newsgroups: comp.parallel.pvm
From: lederman@romano.cs.wisc.edu (Steve Huss-Lederman)
Subject: MPI BOF at SC'96
Organization: CS Department, University of Wisconsin
Date: 11 Nov 1996 18:34:59 GMT
Message-ID: <LEDERMAN.96Nov11123459@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.

We are posting to the PVM newsgroup in hopes of receiving valuable
feedback from this knowledgeable community.

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.

