Subject: Re: Message Passing not for the masses

From: [email-masked] (Al Geist)
Date: Thu, 11 Mar 93 13:26:15 -0500

scott berryman flames...
>even if MPI turns into a huge, ugly mass of routines,

There are two problems with this argument.
a. at the rate we are going we will never be able to 
   agree on (or document) MPI so there wont be a subset.
b. existing packages like NX were not designed to spare performance
   yet it doesn't have 4 layers and 34 different send variants.
   Jon and my comment reflect the concern
   that we will not be able to define MPI-1 in any reasonable
   time frame if it is a huge, ugly mass of routines,

Al