[ofa-general] Re: New proposal for memory management

[Jeff Squyres]

On Apr 30, 2009, at 3:21 PM, Tom Talpey wrote:

> Of course I agree. I am however questioning the goal of making this
> 100% transparent. To do so, both sides of the interface will need to
> behave in specific ways (e.g. no forking), and that can be very, very
> difficult to achieve.
>

There's no goal of making this 100% transparent.  Sure, that'd be nice  
(perhaps as a long-term goal), but that's not what I started this  
thread for.

We're not even trying to be lazy; MPI implementations have done a  
*lot* of work to make MPI function properly over OpenFabrics.  But as  
Brian said, we just need *something* that is safe and sane.  Right  
now, we don't have that.

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Jeff Squyres
Cisco Systems