Newsgroups: comp.parallel From: nitzberg@nas.nasa.gov (Bill Nitzberg) Subject: MPI-IO -- New Draft (Version 0.5) & Implementations Organization: NAS - NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA Date: 23 Apr 1996 15:50:59 GMT Message-ID: <4liu93$de4@usenet.srv.cis.pitt.edu> Now available on the MPI-IO web site: http://lovelace.nas.nasa.gov/MPI-IO/ * Updated MPI-IO draft standard (version 0.5) * Implementations of MPI-IO (Alpha release) for the IBM SP2, Intel Paragon, and SGI workstations. What is MPI-IO? MPI-IO is a proposed standard interface for parallel I/O (reading and writing files from parallel applications) which provides a high-level interface to describe the partitioning of file data among processes, a collective interface describing complete transfers of global data structures between process memories and files, full support for asynchronous I/O operations, and a hints interface for supporting machine dependent optimizations.