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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


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



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