Given how many implementations claimed MPI 3.0 support when their RMA
implementations were garbage piles of incorrectness or pathetic performance, it
borders on the absurd to think that logical rigor about feature support will
stop anyone from claiming MPI 4.0 support.
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I agree with Jeff that this is a non-issue. Bill’s assertion that adding
Fortran support for large count once you have C support has been true in MPICH
development at least and no vender would drop anything just to put MPI 4.0
compatibility on a marketing slide. They’d just put it on the slide
Dear Jeff and all,
> I think their users would be very unhappy.
Yes, users can be unhappy and compute centers may definitely recommend
an other MPI library - at least for any software development.
I want to remember that MPI-3.1 requires for the mpi module:
"Provide explicit interfaces