I just picked up my copy. Never actually read the previous version (the yellow book), but I'll read this one cover to cover. I swear. On Nov 10, 2012 11:45 AM, "Eugen Leitl" <eu...@leitl.org> wrote:
> ----- Forwarded message from Rolf Rabenseifner <rabenseif...@hlrs.de> > ----- > > From: Rolf Rabenseifner <rabenseif...@hlrs.de> > Date: Sat, 10 Nov 2012 19:03:13 +0100 (CET) > To: eu...@leitl.org > Subject: New MPI-3.0 standard in hardcover - the green book > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > Please forward this announcement to any colleagues who may be > interested. Our apologies if you receive multiple copies. > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > 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 > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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. > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > 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 > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > Dr. Rolf Rabenseifner .. . . . . . . . . . email rabenseif...@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 > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > ----- End forwarded message ----- > -- > Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org";>leitl</a> http://leitl.org > ______________________________________________________________ > ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiota.org > 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE > _______________________________________________ > Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org sponsored by Penguin Computing > To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit > http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf >
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