Then I would suggest you stick with "oshmem" to be clear you mean OpenSHMEM

On Oct 18, 2013, at 6:20 AM, Igor Ivanov <igor.iva...@itseez.com> wrote:

> As I know OpenSHMEM is an effort to create a standardized SHMEM library for C 
> and Fortran. SGI’s SHMEM API is the baseline for OpenSHMEM Specification 1.0.
> Most of OpenSHMEM API functions can be found in different SHMEM API 
> implementations but there are functions that are specific for SGI`s, Cray`s 
> etc products.
> 
> SIte www.shmem.org says that "The SHMEM™ Application Programming Interface 
> (API) definition and the SHMEM trademark are the property of SGI. "
> 
> Igor
> 
> On 18.10.2013 16:33, Jeff Squyres (jsquyres) wrote:
>> On Oct 18, 2013, at 1:18 AM, Igor Ivanov <igor.iva...@itseez.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> Is there naming convention related configure options in OMPI?
>>> Do you see any objections about --enable-oshmem-xxx or they must be 
>>> replaced with --enable-shmem-xxx?
>> Hmm.  Good question.
>> 
>> I don't know enough about shmem vs. open shmem to say.  Is the API the same? 
>>  If the API is the same, then you make a good point -- perhaps we should 
>> replace all --with-oshmem-xxx and --enable-oshmem-xxx with --with-shmem-xxx 
>> and --enable-shmem-xxx, respectively.
>> 
>> Supporting this view, we have several --with-mpi-xxx switches (i.e., we 
>> don't have --with-ompi-xxx switches).  But this works because Open MPI is 
>> just an implementation of MPI.  Forgive my shmem ignorance: is the oshmem/ 
>> layer an implementation of Shmem?  Or an implementation of Open Shmem?  (is 
>> there a difference between the two?)
>> 
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