Re: Provide one MPI-1.2 standard document

[William Gropp <gropp@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks, Rainer.  This is a good start.

There are a few things that I'd like to see in the update.  Because  
this is a standard document, we must be exceptionally careful with  
changes.  For each change, I'd like a reference back to the *adopted*  
errata - if there are additional changes needed (such as fixes to the  
examples), they should go through the official adoption process  
first.  For items from the MPI 1.2 part of the MPI-2 document, the  
text should identify the original section and be exactly the same  
(again, errata must be corrected through the established process).   
That will also make it easy to go through the new document and make  
sure that all is well.

Bill

On Jul 4, 2007, at 11:42 AM, Rainer Keller wrote:

> Hello dear all,
> we would like to raise an issue that has been discussed sometime  
> before:
> would the community make use of one single MPI-1.2 standards document?
>
> We have found this to be worthwhile for our students, but also, to  
> give a
> single position (page&Line) in the MPI-Standard, in case an error  
> related to
> MPI-1.2 is reported in Error-checking tools (and not "MPI1, but with
> clarification in the MPI2-specification on page X").
>
> Being at it, it would be nice to move to an official PDF-document  
> with links
> to the calls, sections and references (using latex2e and hyperref).
>
> As a start, I would like to suggest the following document (changes  
> are marked
> with macros for \CHANGE, \INTO, \ADD and \DELETE, the latter text  
> being \it}
>
> Please, as *many* eyes as possible should check the correctness of the
> how&where in the attached changes-file and the mpi-report.pdf and send
> updates.
> I would volunteer to document and include updates as suggested and  
> do the
> final cleanup.
>
> With best regards,
> Rainer
>
>
> PS:
> There are still some open issues with:
>  - Fig4.1, which does not have Boundary Boxes (and is not included  
> in the PDF)
>  - The links (of the index) are off by 9 pages at the moment...
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