Santhosh,<div><br></div><div>I think Ralph wants you to give your definitions for &quot;Marshlling&quot; and &quot;Unmashalling&quot;.</div><div>Otherwise, it is not clear to him or others exactly what you are asking, because there are multiple possible meanings for those terms.</div>
<div><br></div><div>-Paul<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Nov 4, 2012 at 7:56 PM, Santhosh Kokala <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:Santhosh.Kokala@riverbed.com" target="_blank">Santhosh.Kokala@riverbed.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br>
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<b>Sent:</b> Sunday, November 04, 2012 7:46 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Open MPI Developers<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [OMPI devel] About Marshalling and Umarshalling<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Could you provide a little more definition of your terms? Just want to ensure we are talking the same language as I don&#39;t immediately see the relationship between these three questions.<u></u><u></u></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal">On Nov 4, 2012, at 6:19 PM, Santhosh Kokala &lt;<a href="mailto:Santhosh.Kokala@riverbed.com" target="_blank">Santhosh.Kokala@riverbed.com</a>&gt; wrote:<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;color:#1f497d">Does OpenMPI support Marshalling/Unmarshalling?  If so does it use ideal style language? If not how does it support heterogenous hosts?</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;"><u></u><u></u></span></p>

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