Connecting Programs via Intercommunicators

• Programs use separate (disjoint) communicators for internal messages

  • But share MPI_COMM_WORLD

• To connect them

  • Use MPI_INTERCOMM_CREATE or MPI_INTERCOMM_MERGE to form intercommunicator
  • Use MPI_SEND, et al. as usual

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