From: Michael Starkie <Starfire@LL.MIT.EDU>
Newsgroups: comp.parallel.mpi
Subject: MPI_FINALIZE(). Is it necessary?
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1998 16:01:14 -0500
Organization: MIT Lincoln Laboratory
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How important is it that an MPI application call MPI_FINALIZE before
exiting?

I typically don't worry about socket descriptors, for instance, before
calling exit() for a tcp application. It all just works and cleans
itself up just fine. True with MPI? What about an application
distributed on a large SPP architecture? Any differences in terms of
cleaning the MPI state?

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Cordially,
Michael Starkie