Re: [Mpi-forum] MPI International Survey

2018-12-09 Thread Atsushi HORI via mpi-forum
Thank you, Jeff and Bill, I believe this survey topic should be discussed out of this mailing list. So, I will create another mailing list to discuss on this. The mailing list will include the members who are not involved in MPI Forum. So, if you want to join the mailing list, just let me kn

Re: [Mpi-forum] MPI International Survey

2018-12-09 Thread David E. Bernholdt via mpi-forum
I think it is a valid question in the context of a survey about MPI.  It is about the API they're calling.  Other environments may choose to use MPI in the implementation, but that's not part of their specification.  Could be anything. On 12/7/2018 12:07 AM, Jeff Hammond via mpi-forum wrote: P

Re: [Mpi-forum] MPI International Survey

2018-12-07 Thread William Gropp via mpi-forum
I too found some of these questions impossible to answer because none of the available answers was accurate enough, and I gave up rather than provide misleading results. I do think that this specific question is almost ok, but I really think that it is better to address the requirements for not

Re: [Mpi-forum] MPI International Survey

2018-12-06 Thread Jeff Hammond via mpi-forum
Please stop perpetuating the myth that MPI and PGAS are opposed by asking questions that support this false dichotomy. Lots of folks use MPI via other APIs, whether they be PETSc or Global Arrays. Thanks to MPI-3 RMA, PGAS can be just another abstraction layer on top of MPI. *Do you have any pla