Re: JOD as separate document

Albert Cheng (acheng@ncsa.uiuc.edu)
Wed, 25 Sep 1996 13:20:26 -0500

On Sep 25, 12:15pm, Raja Daoud wrote:
> For these reasons, I am in favour of not officially releasing JOD at
> SC'96. Free free to personally take a copy, show it to your friends,
> and urge them to flood the 1-800-2ASK-MPI number with requests for this
> or that function. :-) But I'd like the MPI Forum position to be:
> "Here are the 1.2 and 2.0 documents to be standardized, please review
> them and comment on them. Thank you!"

[I would prefer 1-900-MPI-4YOU, $20.00/min. That would pay for all
the printing cost. :-)]

May I propose a compromise: make the MPI-2 Standard containing only
the current Part 1 and 2 and make the JOD a companion document.
Together they form the official report by the MPI-2 forum. The whole
report is distributed in SC'96 for public comments.

As I understand, JOD is a time-dependent document--the intention is
to attach it to MPI-2 Standard for now and then it will "migrate" to
MPI-3 (maybe) or somewhere else (MPI-2++) or just vanishes (hope not).
Whatever eventually happen to the JOD, the MPI-2 standard should stay
unchanged.

Just my two cents.

=Albert

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