MPI: A Message-Passing Interface Standard

Contents

Contents

  • Introduction to MPI
  • Overview and Goals
  • Who Should Use This Standard?
  • What Platforms Are Targets For Implementation?
  • What Is Included In The Standard?
  • What Is Not Included In The Standard?
  • Organization of this Document
  • MPI Terms and Conventions
  • Document Notation
  • Procedure Specification
  • Semantic Terms
  • Data Types
  • Opaque objects
  • Array arguments
  • State
  • Named constants
  • Choice
  • Addresses
  • Language Binding
  • Fortran 77 Binding Issues
  • C Binding Issues
  • Processes
  • Error Handling
  • Implementation issues
  • Independence of Basic Runtime Routines
  • Interaction with signals in POSIX
  • Examples
  • Point-to-Point Communication
  • Introduction
  • Blocking Send and Receive Operations
  • Blocking send
  • Message data
  • Message envelope
  • Blocking receive
  • Return status
  • Data type matching and data conversion
  • Type matching rules
  • Type MPI_CHARACTER
  • Data conversion
  • Communication Modes
  • Semantics of point-to-point communication
  • Buffer allocation and usage
  • Model implementation of buffered mode
  • Nonblocking communication
  • Communication Objects
  • Communication initiation
  • Communication Completion
  • Semantics of Nonblocking Communications
  • Multiple Completions
  • Probe and Cancel
  • Persistent communication requests
  • Send-receive
  • Null processes
  • Derived datatypes
  • Datatype constructors
  • Address and extent functions
  • Lower-bound and upper-bound markers
  • Commit and free
  • Use of general datatypes in communication
  • Correct use of addresses
  • Examples
  • Pack and unpack
  • Collective Communication
  • Introduction and Overview
  • Communicator argument
  • Barrier synchronization
  • Broadcast
  • Example using MPI_BCAST
  • Gather
  • Examples using MPI_GATHER, MPI_GATHERV
  • Scatter
  • Examples using MPI_SCATTER, MPI_SCATTERV
  • Gather-to-all
  • Examples using MPI_ALLGATHER, MPI_ALLGATHERV
  • All-to-All Scatter/Gather
  • Global Reduction Operations
  • Reduce
  • Predefined reduce operations
  • MINLOC and MAXLOC
  • User-Defined Operations
  • Example of User-defined Reduce
  • All-Reduce
  • Reduce-Scatter
  • Scan
  • Example using MPI_SCAN
  • Correctness
  • Groups, Contexts, and Communicators
  • Introduction
  • Features Needed to Support Libraries
  • MPI's Support for Libraries
  • Basic Concepts
  • Groups
  • Contexts
  • Intra-Communicators
  • Predefined Intra-Communicators
  • Group Management
  • Group Accessors
  • Group Constructors
  • Group Destructors
  • Communicator Management
  • Communicator Accessors
  • Communicator Constructors
  • Communicator Destructors
  • Motivating Examples
  • Current Practice #1
  • Current Practice #2
  • (Approximate) Current Practice #3
  • Example #4
  • Library Example #1
  • Library Example #2
  • Inter-Communication
  • Inter-communicator Accessors
  • Inter-communicator Operations
  • Inter-Communication Examples
  • Example 1: Three-Group ``Pipeline"
  • Example 2: Three-Group ``Ring"
  • Example 3: Building Name Service for Intercommunication
  • Caching
  • Functionality
  • Attributes Example
  • Formalizing the Loosely Synchronous Model
  • Basic Statements
  • Models of Execution
  • Static communicator allocation
  • Dynamic communicator allocation
  • The General case
  • Process Topologies
  • Introduction
  • Virtual Topologies
  • Embedding in MPI
  • Overview of the Functions
  • Topology Constructors
  • Cartesian Constructor
  • Cartesian Convenience Function: MPI_DIMS_CREATE
  • General (Graph) Constructor
  • Topology inquiry functions
  • Cartesian Shift Coordinates
  • Partitioning of Cartesian structures
  • Low-level topology functions
  • An Application Example
  • MPI Environmental Management
  • Implementation information
  • Environmental Inquiries
  • Tag values
  • Host rank
  • IO rank
  • Clock synchronization
  • Error handling
  • Error codes and classes
  • Timers and synchronization
  • Startup
  • Profiling Interface
  • Requirements
  • Discussion
  • Logic of the design
  • Miscellaneous control of profiling
  • Examples
  • Profiler implementation
  • MPI library implementation
  • Systems with weak symbols
  • Systems without weak symbols
  • Complications
  • Multiple counting
  • Linker oddities
  • Multiple levels of interception
  • Bibliography
  • Language Binding
  • Introduction
  • Defined Constants for C and Fortran
  • C bindings for Point-to-Point Communication
  • C Bindings for Collective Communication
  • C Bindings for Groups, Contexts, and Communicators
  • C Bindings for Process Topologies
  • C bindings for Environmental Inquiry
  • C Bindings for Profiling
  • Fortran Bindings for Point-to-Point Communication
  • Fortran Bindings for Collective Communication
  • Fortran Bindings for Groups, Contexts, etc.
  • Fortran Bindings for Process Topologies
  • Fortran Bindings for Environmental Inquiry
  • Fortran Bindings for Profiling
  • Index

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