Re: [OMPI devel] [devel-core] [RFC] Runtime Services Layer

2007-08-21 Thread Tim Prins
Yeah, ABI is something that has been on many people's "it would be nice to have this someday" list, but I agree with Terry in that if this is something we want, MPI is the place to start. I assume that the RSL will have the same ABI problems as every other framework. Tim Terry D. Dontje wro

Re: [OMPI devel] [RFC] Runtime Services Layer

2007-08-21 Thread Tim Prins
Terry, Thanks for the comments. Responses below. Terry D. Dontje wrote: I think the concept is a good idea. A few questions that come to mind: 1. Do you have a set of APIs you plan on supporting? Do you mean the RSL API? Or do you mean the APIs of alternative runtime systems? The rsl API