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Tracker: [CLOSED] SPMD Application
Title: Semantics of Executable andWorkingDirectory
Description:
9) *** Section 4.1.3. *** 
I think it would helpful advice to users (and implementors) to
make a comment on what users can assume (or not) about the semantics
of "Executable" and "WorkingDirectory". They might be fairly well defined
for a (non-parallel) POSIXApplication, but they are potentially ambiguous
when re-used in the context of SPMD (parallel) applications.
Thus on a cluster environment, can it be assumed that the pathname of the
executable is necessarily the same on every worker node?
More importantly, can it be assumed that every process of the parallel
application will have WorkingDirectory as its working directory when
it starts? In general, I think the answer is no.
Submitted By: Andreas Savva
Submitted On: 01/23/2007 5:19 AM EST
Last Modified: 04/04/2007 4:19 AM EDT
Closed: 04/04/2007 4:19 AM EDT

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Comments
Andreas Savva: 04/04/2007 4:19 AM EDT
  Comment:
The draft has been submitted to the OGF Editor and I am closing these artifacts.

Final call on the list serving as verification that these were fixed correctly.
  Action: Update
Closed set to 04/04/2007
Status changed from Fixed to Closed
Andreas Savva: 02/28/2007 6:00 AM EST
  Comment:
added text. Might need to break it out to a different subsection eventually.
  Action: Update
Status changed from Resolved to Fixed
Andreas Savva: 02/14/2007 3:16 AM EST
  Action: Update
Assigned To set to Andreas Savva
Andreas Savva: 02/14/2007 3:09 AM EST
  Comment:
 Agreed, after lengthy discussion, that it is
      too complex to try and explain normatively. Instead opt to warn
      users not to assume too much about the semantics of Executable
      and WorkingDirectory. (For Executable the environment should be
      set so that it can be picked up. For WorkingDirectory, a shared
      filesystem may be one assumption, in addition to the rank zero process
      proposal).

     Agreed to include a non-normative example with appropriate
     warnings in the doc.
  Action: Update
Status changed from Open to Resolved
Andreas Savva: 01/23/2007 5:19 AM EST
  Action: Create


 
 
 
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