Re: Allowing for remote servers and such.

Rajeev Thakur (thakur@mcs.anl.gov)
Sat, 14 Sep 1996 21:05:33 -0500

Thanks for the proposal.
I like the idea of specifying the service by modifying the filename in
an implementation-dependent way.
I'm wondering if that itself would take care of the problem?
For example, if the filename is prefixed with the service name and
whatever other information is needed for remote access,
the MPI_Open routine could interpret that information and internally
call the equivalent of MPI_Io_create_service, etc., transparent to the
user. Does the user really need to explicitly call MPI_Io_create_service,
MPI_Io_add_service, MPI_Io_make_file_handle? Maybe I am missing
something, so a simple example showing how they are used would be very
helpful.

Rajeev