On Sun, 26 Jan 1997 gorlatch@fmi.uni-passau.de wrote:
> Date: Sun, 26 Jan 1997 17:15:14 +0100 (MET)
> From: gorlatch@fmi.uni-passau.de
> To: Tony Skjellum <tony@aurora.cs.msstate.edu>
> Subject: Re: 6.4 Intercommunicator Constructors
>
> Dear Tony,
>
> you write:
>
> TS> MPI_INTERCOMM_PARTITION was dropped in September, I will I was
> TS> unavailable to defened it. This was the important call to allow
> TS> intracomms to be split into intercommunicators. Without it, we
> TS> have only the more clumbsy, less synchronous MPI-1 call, which is
> TS> also more complex to use, and unnecessarily much work for a user,
> TS> who just wants to divide a SPMD world.
>
> TS> This is not a performance-oriented call, but a convenience-oriented
> TS> call. It is very similar in vein to MPI_COMM_SPLIT, and was on the
> TS> collective chapter books for more than 1.5 years. It does not
>
> I would be very interested to have a look at the description of
> MPI_INTERCOMM_PARTITION, its rationale, etc.
> Is it available somewhere?
>
> Thanks,
>
> --
> Sergei
>
>
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