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Foil 27 Collective Communication

From Fox Presentation Fall 1995 CPS615 Basic Simulation Track for Computational Science -- Fall Semester 95. by Geoffrey C. Fox


1 MPI_BARRIER(comm) Global Synchronization within a given communicator
2 MPI_BCAST Global Broadcast
3 MPI_GATHER Concatenate data from all processors in a communicator into one process
  • MPI_ALLGATHER puts result of concatenation in all processors
4 MPI_SCATTER takes data from one processor and scatters over all processors
5 MPI_ALLTOALL sends data from all processes to all other processes
6 MPI_SENDRECV exchanges data between two processors -- often used to implement "shifts"
  • viewed as pure point to point by some

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