From fortran@vnet.IBM.COM Fri Aug 6 06:44:16 1993 Received: from vnet.ibm.com by dkuug.dk with SMTP id AA18945 (5.65c8/IDA-1.4.4j for ); Fri, 6 Aug 1993 22:43:03 +0200 Message-Id: <199308062043.AA18945@dkuug.dk> Received: from STLVM7 by vnet.IBM.COM (IBM VM SMTP V2R2) with BSMTP id 4059; Fri, 06 Aug 93 16:42:31 EDT Date: Fri, 6 Aug 93 13:44:16 PDT From: fortran@vnet.IBM.COM To: sc22wg5@dkuug.dk Subject: MPI - Language Binding Subcommittee X-Charset: ASCII X-Char-Esc: 29 Possibly they would be interested in the guidelines document. Thanks, Dick W. IBM M77/E365,555 Bailey Ave,PO 49023,San Jose Ca 95161-9023 internet: fortran@vnet.ibm.com 408-463-2956, fax ...-3114 ----------------- Date: Fri, 6 Aug 1993 15:18:00 -0400 From: walker@rios2.epm.ornl.gov (David Walker) Message-Id: <9308061918.AA16343@rios2.epm.ornl.gov> To: weaver@stlvm7.vnet.ibm.com Subject: MPI Forum Meeting *** If you are already a member of an MPI subcommittee please ignore *** This message has two parts: (1) an announcement of the next meeting of the MPI Forum (2) a description of the MPI standardization process, and an invitation for interested parties to become involved. PART ONE - MESSAGE PASSING INTERFACE FORUM MEETING ---------------------------------------------------- The next meeting of the Message Passing Interface (MPI) Forum will take place in Dallas, August 11-13, 1993. Details are given below. The ongoing email discussion on MPI standardization issues can be obtained from netlib as well. To find out what is available via email send the following message to netlib@ornl.gov: send index from mpi MPI Forum Meeting, August 11-13, 1993 ------------------------------------- The next meeting of the MPI forum will take place at Bristol Suites Hotel 7800 Alpha Road Dallas, Texas The meeting will start at 1pm on Wednesday August 11, 1993, and finish at noon on Friday, August 13, 1993. Rooms are $89 per night and reservations may be made by calling (214) 233-7600 (mention MPI meeting). The meeting registration fee will be $75. Please make checks and POs payable to University of Tennessee. The registration fee will be collected at the meeting. The registration fee will go for coffee breaks, meeting rooms, AV and printer rentals. Certain organizations need to see a registration form before giving their employees money for meetings like this. You can get such a form in PostScript by sending the following message to netlib@ornl.gov: send mpi-form.ps from mpi There is no need to send me the registration form or bring it to the meeting. TBS Shuttle Service will be providing complimentary shuttle service to and from the airports. If you fly into DFW, use their courtesy telephone and dial 03. If you fly into Love Field, you'll have to use a pay phone. They can be reached at 817-267-5150. Upon boarding the shuttle refer to the MPI meeting. We have NOT been able to make any special arrangements with airlines to get reduced fares. Provisional Agenda for MPI Meeting, August 11-13, 1993 Wednesday 1:00-3:00 Subcommittee meetings 3:30-6:00 Discussion of revised point-to-point draft (Snir) 7:30-10:30 More subcommittee meetings if necessary Thursday 9:00-11:00 Collective Communication (Geist) 11:00-12:00 Subset general discussion (Huss-Lederman) 12:00-1:30 Lunch (provided) 1:30-6:00 First reading of contexts chapter (Skjellum) 6:00-8:00 Dinner (attendees pay, but hotel provides transport to area restaurant) 8:00-10:00 Continued informal subcommittee meetings if necessary Friday 9:00-10:30 Environmental Inquiry (Gropp) 10:30-12:00 Topologies second reading (Huss-Lederman) PART TWO - WHAT IS THE MPI FORUM? --------------------------------- As you may be aware, a process is underway to define a standard message passing interface for applications on distributed memory concurrent computers. This process formally began with a workshop held in Williamsburg in April 1992. Following this a Working Group was formed to carry the standardization process forward, and a draft standard for message passing was proposed by Dongarra, Hempel, Hey, and Walker. This proposed standard, called Message Passing Interface 1 (MPI1), was discussed at a second meeting held in Minneapolis in November. At this meeting it was decided to accelerate the standardization process by forming subcommittees to examine different aspects and to make recommendations, taking MPI1 as a reference point. The subcommittees meet approximately every 6 weeks, with the objective of finalizing the standard by July 1993. The first 3 such meetings were held January 6-8, February 17-19, and March 31-April2, 1993. The following is a list of the subcommittees: 1. Introduction subcommittee 2. Point-to-point communication subcommittee 3. Collective communication subcommittee 4. Process topology subcommittee 5. Language binding subcommittee 6. Formal language description subcommittee 7. Environment inquiry subcommittee 8. Profiling subcommittee 9. Contexts subcommittee 10. Implementation advisory subcommittee In general, we shall follow the organization and procedures of the High Performance Fortran working group. For the standard to be a success input from the research community is essential. I am therefore writing to ask if you would like to assist in defining the message passing standard by joining one or more subcommittees and attending future MPI meetings. Please let me know which, if any, of the subcommittees you would like to join. If you don't think you'll be able to attend any of the meetings, but are interested in what MPI is doing you can elect to have observer status. Further information for new participants can be obtained by email by sending the following message to netlib@ornl.gov: send mpi-newcomers from mpi The first meetings of the MPI subcommittees took place January 6-8, February 17-19, March31-April 2, and may 12-14, 1993. Minutes of these meetings, together with a list of other MPI-related documents available via email, may be obtained by sending the following 3-line message to netlib@ornl.gov: send minutes-jan93 from mpi send minutes-feb93 from mpi send minutes-apr93 from mpi send index from mpi With Best Regards, David Walker Executive Director of the MPI Working Group