Re: JOD as separate document

Tony Skjellum (tony@Aurora.CS.MsState.Edu)
Wed, 25 Sep 1996 13:56:49 -0500 (CDT)

Again, that assumes that the only customers are those that care about MPI
as of January 1, 1997, versus those looking for the long term roadmap and
thinking of programs with durations of longer than a few months. Most of
the questions I get is to see the big picture.
-Tony

On Wed, 25 Sep 1996, Greg
Burns wrote:

> Date: Wed, 25 Sep 1996 14:44:04 -0400 (EDT)
> From: Greg Burns <gdburns@tbag.osc.edu>
> To: mpi-core@mcs.anl.gov
> Subject: Re: JOD as separate document
>
>
> I agree with Raja. I see the SC'96 release and subsequent public input
> as part of the latter stages of MPI-2. I don't see it as the opportunity
> for one big MPI Forum meeting where we rehash everything that was ever
> on the table. The public has access to the Forum, the mailing lists,
> the current draft document/chapters for this type of input. The people
> who will read the SC'96 document for the first time have probably
> made a conscious decision to avoid the "preliminaries". They want
> to concentrate on what is probably going to be in the final document and
> thereby serve as a late stage sanity check.
>
> --
> Greg
>

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