Re: 5.6 Semantics and correctness

Eric Salo (salo@mrjones.engr.sgi.com)
Fri, 24 Jan 1997 11:27:50 -0800

> It is entirely legal to defer one sided operations to the complete. In
> contrast it is NOT legal to defer a non-blocking send or recv until the wait.

But most of us do it anyway, as the good Mr. Burns so eloquently points out:

Fortunately, the total lack of correct implementations has resulted
in the acceptance of the weak interpretation of the progress rule.
Otherwise, you would need to have or to build an OS to implement MPI

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