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Foil 15 Derived Datatype Basics

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 355.6
Derived Datatypes should be declared integer in Fortran and MPI_Datatype in C
Generally have form {(type0,disp0),(type1,disp1)...(type(n-1),disp(n-1))} with list of primitive data types typei and displacements (from start of buffer) dispi
call MPI_TYPE_CONTIGUOUS (count, oldtype, newtype, ierr)
  • creates a new datatype newtype made up of count repetitions of old datatype oldtype
one must use call MPI_TYPE_COMMIT(derivedtype,ierr)
before one can use the type derivedtype in a communication call
call MPI_TYPE_FREE(derivedtype,ierr) frees up space used by this derived type

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