External32 is also a non-optional part of the standard, so to fully implement MPI-2, we need to support it.

Bill

On Dec 10, 2007, at 11:12 AM, Darius Buntinas wrote:



On 12/10/2007 10:38 AM, Robert Latham wrote:
On Mon, Dec 10, 2007 at 10:29:18AM -0600, Darius Buntinas wrote:
On the Intel concall this morning, Alexander asked about whether mpich2 has ext32 support.  Does anyone know what the status of this is?
is that the external32 data representation?  ROMIO doesn't support it. 

Are there plans to support it?

Is Alexander asking because a customer really wants it, or is he just
curious?

He didn't say, but it seemed that this was something Intel wants to have in IntelMPI.

-d


William Gropp
Paul and Cynthia Saylor Professor of Computer Science
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign