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Foil 24 Implementation of MPSHIFT(+1, SOURCE,DEST)

From CPS615-Completion of MPI foilset and Application to Jacobi Iteration in 2D Delivered Lectures of CPS615 Basic Simulation Track for Computational Science -- 7 November 96. by Geoffrey C. Fox *
Secs 63.3
1 Consider for example, shift to right
2 Then Processors 0 .. Nproc-2 Send to right
    • Processors 1 .. Nproc-1 Receive from left
3 We can't necessarily send all messages and then receive all messages. "Standard" send can be "blocking" i.e. will not return unless receive completed by destination processor. In this case, we can deadlock as all "hang" after send, waiting for receive
4 So we are more careful
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