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If you want access to the GitHub group (https://github.com/mpiwg-abi/), send me your GitHub username. If you want access to the Slack channel, DM me on Slack. If you are not on Slack already, send me your email address. Jeff On Wed, Nov 16, 2022 at 9:54 AM Jeff Hammond <jeff.scie...@gmail.com> wrote: > I don't know what we do to create new working groups with the post-COVID > rules, but I would like to create and chair a WG focused on ABI > standardization. > > There is strong support for this effort in many user communities, > including developers and maintainers of Spack, mpi4py, Julia MPI (MPI.jl), > Rust MPI (rsmpi), PETSc and NVHPC SDK, to name a few. There are even a few > implementers who have expressed support, but I won't name them for their > own protection. > > The problem is so exasperating for our users that there are at least two > different projects devoted to mitigating ABI problems (not including shims > built in to the aforementioned MPI wrappers): > > https://github.com/cea-hpc/wi4mpi > https://github.com/eschnett/MPItrampoline > > I've written about this a bit already, for those who are interested. More > material will be forthcoming once I have time for more experiments. > > https://github.com/jeffhammond/blog/blob/main/MPI_Needs_ABI.md > https://github.com/jeffhammond/blog/blob/main/MPI_Needs_ABI_Part_2.md > https://github.com/jeffhammond/blog/blob/main/MPI_Needs_ABI_Part_3.md > https://github.com/jeffhammond/blog/blob/main/MPI_Needs_ABI_Part_4.md > > I understand this is a controversial topic, particularly for > implementers. I hope that we can proceed objectively. > > Thanks, > > Jeff > > -- > Jeff Hammond > jeff.scie...@gmail.com > http://jeffhammond.github.io/ > -- Jeff Hammond jeff.scie...@gmail.com http://jeffhammond.github.io/
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