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.