[mpich-discuss] Fwd: New MPI-3.0 standard in hardcover - the green book

[Rajeev Thakur]

FYI...

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> From: Rolf Rabenseifner <rabenseifner at hlrs.de>
> Date: November 10, 2012 12:56:48 PM CST
> To: thakur at mcs.anl.gov
> Subject: New MPI-3.0 standard in hardcover - the green book
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> Please forward this announcement to any colleagues who may be
> interested. Our apologies if you receive multiple copies.
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> Dear MPI user,
> 
> now, the new official MPI-3.0 standard (Sep. 21, 2012) 
> in hardcover can be shipped to anywhere in the world.
> 
> As a service (at costs) for users of the Message Passing Interface, 
> HLRS has printed the new Standard, Version 3.0 (852 pages)
> in hardcover. The price is only 19.50 Euro or 25 US-$.
> 
> You can find a picture of the book and the text of the standard at
> http://www.mpi-forum.org/docs/docs.html
> Selling & shipping of the book is done through
> 
>        https://fs.hlrs.de/projects/par/mpi/mpi30/
> 
> 
> MPI-3.0 implemetations will be available soon. 
> See Richard Graham "The MPI-3.0 Standard", slides 53-54, 
> presented at the EuroMPI, Sep 24-26, 2012 in Vienna:
> http://www.par.univie.ac.at/conference/eurompi2012/docs/s7t2.pdf
> 
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> See also at SC12, Salt Lake City, HLRS-booth 1036, Nov. 12-15 and 
> - MPICH BOF,   Tuesday   Nov. 13, 12:15-1:15pm, Room 155-B
> - OpenMPI BOF, Wednesday Nov. 14, 12:15-1:15pm, Room 155-B
> - MPI-3.0 BOF, Thursday  Nov. 15, 12:15-1:15pm, Room 355-A
> A limited number of the books will be available directly there. 
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> 
> Details on MPI-3.0: 
> ------------------- 
> MPI-3.0 is a new version of the MPI standard that better serves the
> needs of the parallel computing community for better platform and
> application support.
> 
> Major improvements are:
> - Improvements to the one-sided communication:
>    -- New window allocation methods
>    -- New RMA interfaces
>    -- Special support for clusters of shared memory nodes
> - Nonblocking collectives
> - Scalable sparse collectives (neighbor communication in topologies)
> - Thread-safe message probe
> - New MPI Fortran binding that is the first time consistent
>   with the Fortran standard: the new mpi_f08 module
> - Enhancements for the existing Fortran mpi module
> - Non-collective communicator creation
> - Support for large counts (larger than 32 bit values)
> - Enhancements to MPI_Init, etc.
> - Additional new tools interface
> - The MPIR process acquisition interface (an extra document).
> Major removals are:
> - Some MPI-1.1 functionality that was deprecated since MPI-2.0.
> - For C++ programming, the C++ bindings were substituted 
>   by the C bindings. For this, several MPI-2.2 errata items 
>   were defined.
> 
> Best regards 
> Rolf Rabenseifner
> 
> PS: Picture of the book:
>    http://www.mpi-forum.org/docs/images/mpi-report-3.0-2012-09-21-as-1book.jpg
> 
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> Dr. Rolf Rabenseifner .. . . . . . . . . . email rabenseifner at hlrs.de
> High Performance Computing Center (HLRS) . phone ++49(0)711/685-65530
> University of Stuttgart .. . . . . . . . . fax : ++49(0)711/685-65832
> Head of Dpmt Parallel Computing .. .. www.hlrs.de/people/rabenseifner
> Nobelstr. 19, D-70550 Stuttgart, Germany
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