Re: alternate proposal

(no name) (j_nieplocha@pnl.gov)
Mon, 04 Mar 1996 09:07:19 -0800

Eric,

I thought that I understood your proposal until I got to the example:

> MPI_PUT(buf, 100, MPI_INT, 3, 200*sizeof(int), comm)
>
>The data is copied by MPI into the shared page that corresponds to rank 3.
>While the other ranks also receive a copy of this data, none of them can
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>access it directly.

Are you implying some sort of replicated shared memory model with
consistency enforced by implicit broadcasts ? Probably not, but you might
still consider rewording this paragraph.

Jarek Nieplocha