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Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1999 09:17:13 +0000
From: James Cownie <jcownie@dolphinics.com>
Organization: Dolphin Interconnect Solutions
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Subject: Re: Are MPI-1 implementations interchangeable?
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Michael Starkie wrote:
> 
  However, it is assured that applications
> that use our library could simply re-link with another implementation
> and the results would be identical. Performance may vary but the code
> would produce the same answers.  Is this the state of MPI
> implementations ?

MPI is specified at the source level, Therefore you would need to
re-compile and 
re-link.

(For instance the standard does not specify the values
of "constants" such as MPI_COMM_WORLD, merely their names).

-- Jim 

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