PetscCommBuildTwoSided#

discovers communicating ranks given one-sided information, moving constant-sized data in the process (often message lengths)

Synopsis#

#include "petscsys.h"  
PetscErrorCode PetscCommBuildTwoSided(MPI_Comm comm, PetscMPIInt count, MPI_Datatype dtype, PetscMPIInt nto, const PetscMPIInt *toranks, const void *todata, PetscMPIInt *nfrom, PetscMPIInt **fromranks, void *fromdata)

Collective, No Fortran Support

Input Parameters#

comm - communicator
count - number of entries to send/receive (must match on all ranks)
dtype - datatype to send/receive from each rank (must match on all ranks)
nto - number of ranks to send data to
toranks - ranks to send to (array of length nto)
todata - data to send to each rank (packed)

Output Parameters#

nfrom - number of ranks receiving messages from
fromranks - ranks receiving messages from (length nfrom, caller should PetscFree())
fromdata - packed data from each rank, each with count entries of type dtype (length nfrom, caller responsible for PetscFree())

Options Database Key#

-build_twosided <allreduce|ibarrier|redscatter> - algorithm to set up two-sided communication. Default is allreduce for communicators with <= 1024 ranks, otherwise ibarrier.

Notes#

This memory-scalable interface is an alternative to calling PetscGatherNumberOfMessages() and PetscGatherMessageLengths(), possibly with a subsequent round of communication to send other constant-size data, see [HSL10].

Basic data types as well as contiguous types are supported, but non-contiguous (e.g., strided) types are not.

References#

[HSL10]

T. Hoefler, C. Siebert, and A. Lumsdaine. Scalable Communication Protocols for Dynamic Sparse Data Exchange. In Proceedings of the 2010 ACM SIGPLAN Symposium on Principles and Practice of Parallel Programming (PPoPP'10), 159–168. ACM, January 2010.

Level#

developer

Location#

src/sys/utils/mpits.c

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