Subject: comp.parallel.mpi passes

From: Tony Skjellum <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 12 Jul 1994 10:10:54 -0500

Please see note below.  It was 506:14, with one abstention.  Please ask your
USENET site administrators to begin carrying comp.parallel.mpi.  - Regards,
Tony Skjellum

PS I have suppressed the voting list in what follows, for brevity, but
you can read it on news.announce.newgroups.

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                               RESULT
	  unmoderated group comp.parallel.mpi passes 506:14

There were 506 YES votes and 14 NO votes, for a total of 520 valid votes. 
There was 1 abstain.

For group passage, YES votes must be at least 2/3 of all valid (YES and NO)
votes.   There also must be at least 100 more YES votes than NO votes. 

There is a five day discussion period after these results are posted.  If no
serious allegations of voting irregularities are raised, the moderator of
news.announce.newgroups will create the group shortly thereafter.

Newsgroups line:
comp.parallel.mpi	Message Passing Interface (MPI).

This vote is being conducted by a neutral third party.  For voting
questions only contact [email-masked].  For questions about the
proposed group contact Tony Skjellum <[email-masked]>.

CHARTER

The newsgroup 'comp.parallel.mpi' would be a forum for discussing
issues related to the use and interpretation of MPI (Message Passing
Interface), an informal standard for writing message-passing programs.

MPI was created by the MPI Forum, a group of University, Industry, and
National Laboratory representatives including significant
international representation.  The MPI standard can be obtained from
netlib by sending the message "send draft-final.ps from mpi" to
[email-masked].  Alternatively, one can anonymous ftp to
netlib2.cs.utk.edu.

More information about MPI can be obtained by reading the MPI FAQ which
is available by anonymous ftp at aurora.cs.msstate.edu in 
pub/mpi/faq/mpi-faq.ascii.   The FAQ is also available through the WWW at 
URL:
        http://www.cs.msstate.edu/dist_computing/mpi-faq.html

Furthermore, the URL for the full online manual of the standard, and
reference implementation is as follows:
        http://www.mcs.anl.gov/mpi/

RATIONALE

Discussion of MPI questions currently has no single home.
Discussion has appeared in newsgroups such as

        comp.parallel
        comp.parallel.pvm

A single group will centralize discussion and target the intended
audience of such posts more accurately.

It is also expected that there will be a wide audience for this
newsgroup as a result of the participation by many vendors, national
labs, and universities in the development of MPI.

CONTENT

Appropriate discussion in the group will include both general MPI
issues, platform-specific questions, and discussion comparing MPI to
other systems.  Some examples:

  General MPI Issues
        Answers to novices' questions
        Clarification of the standard document
        Exchange of public-domain MPI source code
        Implementation of various applications
        etc.

  Platform-specific issues
        Implementations available
                Peculiarities and bugs found in various implementations
        etc.

  Comparison to other systems
        P4, Express, LINDA, PVM, etc

comp.parallel.mpi Final Vote Ack