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Foil 36 Connecting Programs via Intercommunicators

From Designing and Building Parallel Programs 3: MPI Message Passing System DoD Modernization Tutorial -- 1995-1998. by Ian Foster, Gina Goff, Ehtesham Hayder, Chuck Koelbel
1 Programs use separate (disjoint) communicators for internal messages
  • But share MPI_COMM_WORLD
2 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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