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Description
Problem
We will agree on a means to rename "rank," "task" etc to be fully specified and reflective of the underlying
group, communicator, file, window.
EDIT: From @jsquyres: my intent with raising the issue during the Feb 2021 meeting was more about clarifying where the text mis-uses "rank" to indicate a unique ID for an MPI process. E.g., cleaning up places where the text is incontrovertibly incorrect, such as "MPI process rank X". That somehow got translated into "we must append every single use of 'rank' in the document to be "rank in communicator|window|file", which was not my intent.
Proposal
Agree on and implement changes. Make it part of the defined, approved nomenclature. Agree on if for MPI-4.0 or MPI-4.1.
Changes to the Text
The text will be appropriately changed throughout.
None.
The user community will get better nomenclature.
References and Pull Requests
Tickets for I/O, Partitioned, and Collective were done as demonstrations but may be mooted by this Ticket once the Forum votes on its preferred way of capturing the process naming vs. rank vs. group vs. other opaque handle..
#448
#446
#445
https://github.com/mpi-forum/mpi-standard/pull/549