Laurie
> From mpi-bind-human@mcs.anl.gov Tue Apr 23 09:43 CDT 1996
> From: Laurie Costello <lmc@cray.com>
> Date: Tue, 23 Apr 1996 09:28:22 -0500
> To: mpi-bind@mcs.anl.gov
> Subject: spawn/info
> Cc: lmc@cray.com
>
>
> I'm going back to basics, and after that I'll leave this subject alone.
> I think that MPI should have a parameter to pass resource management
> information to mpi_spawn(). I don't think there is any disagreement
> there. I don't think that MPI should try to standardize a resource
> manager. Given that
> we're not going to standardize it, but it is still needed, I would
> conclude that the less we specify about it the better (ie void *).
>
> If we need something portable and standard, then we should specify
> what it looks like. If we don't specify what it looks like, then
> its not portable.
>
> If we go with key=value, I'd like to add
> key<value, key>value, key<=value, key!=value....and I'd like
> to be able to use logical and/or in combination with these key/value
> pairs.
>
> Laurie
>