.\"Copyright 2008-2010 IBM Corp.
.TH SCI 3 "Dec 4, 2009" "1.0.0" "SCI"

.SH NAME
\fBSCI\fP \- General information SCI 1.0.0

.SH SCI
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SCI (Scalable Communication Infrastructure) is an open source project under
under the terms of the Eclipse Public License v1.0s, its aim is to provide
a common, light-weight, scalable, portable, and extensible run-time and
communication infrastructure for the deployment of developer tools on the
emerging peta- and exa-scale high performance computing systems.
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For more information about EPL, see the following URL:
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    http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html

.SH MAN PAGE SYNTAX
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Man pages for SCI routines are named according to C syntax, that is, they 
begin with the prefix "SCI_",  all in uppercase, and the first letter following
the "SCI_" prefix is also uppercase. The rest of the letters in the routine are
all lowercase, for example, "SCI_Group_create".

.SH GETTING STARTED
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To compile and link SCI programs:
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% gcc -o test test.c -lsci (Linux)
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    or
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% xlc_r -o test test.c -lsci_r (AIX)
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% g++ -o test test.cxx -lsci (Linux)
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    or
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% xlC_r -o test test.cxx -lsci_r (AIX)

.SH DOCUMENTATION
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TBD

.SH VERSION
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SCI version 1.0.0

.SH LICENSE
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TBD

.SH ERRORS
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All SCI routines return an error value.
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For more information on SCI error codes, see \fIsci.h\fP in the include 
directory.

.SH SEE ALSO
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\fBSCI_Initialize\fP(3)
\fBSCI_Terminate\fP(3)
\fBSCI_Query\fP(3)
\fBSCI_Bcast\fP(3)
\fBSCI_Upload\fP(3)
\fBSCI_Poll\fP(3)
\fBSCI_Group_create\fP(3)
\fBSCI_Group_free\fP(3)
\fBSCI_Group_operate\fP(3)
\fBSCI_Group_operate_ext\fP(3)
\fBSCI_Group_query\fP(3)
\fBSCI_Filter_load\fP(3)
\fBSCI_Filter_unload\fP(3)
\fBSCI_Filter_bcast\fP(3)
\fBSCI_Filter_upload\fP(3)
\fBSCI_BE_add\fP(3)
\fBSCI_BE_remove\fP(3)