For those wishing to follow the thread Dick started on the MPI forum list:
http://lists.mpi-forum.org/mpi-forum/2010/04/0606.php
On Apr 6, 2010, at 2:31 PM, Richard Treumann wrote:
> The MPI standard says that MPI_Abort makes a "best effort". It also says that
> an MPI implementation is free to lose the value passed into MPI_Abort and
> deliver some other RC..
>
> The standard does not say that MPI_Abort becomes a valid way to end a
> parallel job if it is passed a zero.
>
> To me it seems pretty clear the name MPI_Abort is was chosen to imply failure.
>
> I think modifying the standard to be explicit about what must happen when
> MPI_Abort is passed zero would be an option. It is a ugly one in my view but
> it would give this kind of application the equivalent of MPI_Quit.
>
> Right now, someone who passes a zero to MPI_Abort would have a hard time
> claiming his application is valid.
>
> Dick
>
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> > Jeff -
> >
> > I started a discussion of MPI_Quit on the MPI Forum reflector. I raised
> > the question because I do not think using MPI_Abort is appropriate.
> >
> > The situation is when a single task decides the parallel program has
> > arrived at the desired answer and therefore whatever the other tasks are
> > currently doing has become irrelevant. The other tasks do not know that
> > the answer has been found by one of them so they cannot just call
> > MPI_Finalize.
> >
> > Do we need a clean and portable way for the task that detects that the
> > answer has been found and written out to do a single handed termination of
> > the parallel job?
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> I'm not Jeff. But isn't that MPI_Abort with an appropriate errorcode
> argument, provided we can get it to shut up?
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