Manpages - MPI_Alltoallw.3

MPI_Alltoallw, MPI_Ialltoallw - All processes send data of different types to, and receive data of different types from, all processes

  #include <mpi.h>
  int MPI_Alltoallw(const void *sendbuf, const int sendcounts[],
  	const int sdispls[], const MPI_Datatype sendtypes[],
  	void *recvbuf, const int recvcounts[], const int rdispls[],
  	const MPI_Datatype recvtypes[], MPI_Comm comm)

  int MPI_Ialltoallw(const void *sendbuf, const int sendcounts[],
  	const int sdispls[], const MPI_Datatype sendtypes[],
  	void *recvbuf, const int recvcounts[], const int rdispls[],
  	const MPI_Datatype recvtypes[], MPI_Comm comm,
  	MPI_Request *request)

  USE MPI
  ! or the older form: INCLUDE 'mpif.h'
  MPI_ALLTOALLW(SENDBUF, SENDCOUNTS, SDISPLS, SENDTYPES,
  	RECVBUF, RECVCOUNTS, RDISPLS, RECVTYPES, COMM, IERROR)

  	<type>	SENDBUF(*), RECVBUF(*)
  	INTEGER	SENDCOUNTS(*), SDISPLS(*), SENDTYPES(*)
  	INTEGER	RECVCOUNTS(*), RDISPLS(*), RECVTYPES(*)
  	INTEGER	COMM, IERROR

  MPI_IALLTOALLW(SENDBUF, SENDCOUNTS, SDISPLS, SENDTYPES,
  	RECVBUF, RECVCOUNTS, RDISPLS, RECVTYPES, COMM, REQUEST, IERROR)

  	<type>	SENDBUF(*), RECVBUF(*)
  	INTEGER	SENDCOUNTS(*), SDISPLS(*), SENDTYPES(*)
  	INTEGER	RECVCOUNTS(*), RDISPLS(*), RECVTYPES(*)
  	INTEGER	COMM, REQUEST, IERROR

  USE mpi_f08
  MPI_Alltoallw(sendbuf, sendcounts, sdispls, sendtypes, recvbuf, recvcounts,
  		rdispls, recvtypes, comm, ierror)

  	TYPE(*), DIMENSION(..), INTENT(IN) :: sendbuf
  	TYPE(*), DIMENSION(..) :: recvbuf
  	INTEGER, INTENT(IN) :: sendcounts(*), sdispls(*), recvcounts(*),
  	rdispls(*)
  	TYPE(MPI_Datatype), INTENT(IN) :: sendtypes(*)
  	TYPE(MPI_Datatype), INTENT(IN) :: recvtypes(*)
  	TYPE(MPI_Comm), INTENT(IN) :: comm
  	INTEGER, OPTIONAL, INTENT(OUT) :: ierror

  MPI_Ialltoallw(sendbuf, sendcounts, sdispls, sendtypes, recvbuf,
  		recvcounts, rdispls, recvtypes, comm, request, ierror)

  	TYPE(*), DIMENSION(..), INTENT(IN), ASYNCHRONOUS :: sendbuf
  	TYPE(*), DIMENSION(..), ASYNCHRONOUS :: recvbuf
  	INTEGER, INTENT(IN), ASYNCHRONOUS :: sendcounts(*), sdispls(*),
  	recvcounts(*), rdispls(*)
  	TYPE(MPI_Datatype), INTENT(IN), ASYNCHRONOUS :: sendtypes(*),
  	recvtypes(*)
  	TYPE(MPI_Comm), INTENT(IN) :: comm
  	TYPE(MPI_Request), INTENT(OUT) :: request
  	INTEGER, OPTIONAL, INTENT(OUT) :: ierror

  #include <mpi.h>
  void MPI::Comm::Alltoallw(const void* sendbuf,
  	const int sendcounts[], const int sdispls[],
  	const MPI::Datatype sendtypes[], void* recvbuf,
  	const int recvcounts[], const int rdispls[],
  	const MPI::Datatype recvtypes[])

sendbuf

Starting address of send buffer.

sendcounts

Integer array, where entry i specifies the number of elements to send to rank i.

sdispls

Integer array, where entry i specifies the displacement (in bytes, offset from sendbuf) from which to send data to rank i.

sendtypes

Datatype array, where entry i specifies the datatype to use when sending data to rank i.

recvcounts

Integer array, where entry j specifies the number of elements to receive from rank j.

rdispls

Integer array, where entry j specifies the displacement (in bytes, offset from recvbuf) to which data from rank j should be written.

recvtypes

Datatype array, where entry j specifies the datatype to use when receiving data from rank j.

comm

Communicator over which data is to be exchanged.

recvbuf

Address of receive buffer.

request

Request (handle, non-blocking only).

IERROR

Fortran only: Error status.

MPI_Alltoallw is a generalized collective operation in which all processes send data to and receive data from all other processes. It adds flexibility to MPI_Alltoallv by allowing the user to specify the datatype of individual data blocks (in addition to displacement and element count). Its operation can be thought of in the following way, where each process performs 2n (n being the number of processes in communicator comm) independent point-to-point communications (including communication with itself).

  	MPI_Comm_size(comm, &n);
  	for (i = 0, i < n; i++)
  	    MPI_Send(sendbuf + sdispls[i], sendcounts[i],
  	        sendtypes[i], i, ..., comm);
  	for (i = 0, i < n; i++)
  	    MPI_Recv(recvbuf + rdispls[i], recvcounts[i],
  	        recvtypes[i], i, ..., comm);

Process j sends the k-th block of its local sendbuf to process k, which places the data in the j-th block of its local recvbuf.

When a pair of processes exchanges data, each may pass different element count and datatype arguments so long as the sender specifies the same amount of data to send (in bytes) as the receiver expects to receive.

Note that process i may send a different amount of data to process j than it receives from process j. Also, a process may send entirely different amounts and types of data to different processes in the communicator.

WHEN COMMUNICATOR IS AN INTER-COMMUNICATOR

When the communicator is an inter-communicator, the gather operation occurs in two phases. The data is gathered from all the members of the first group and received by all the members of the second group. Then the data is gathered from all the members of the second group and received by all the members of the first. The operation exhibits a symmetric, full-duplex behavior.

The first group defines the root process. The root process uses MPI_ROOT as the value of root. All other processes in the first group use MPI_PROC_NULL as the value of root. All processes in the second group use the rank of the root process in the first group as the value of root.

When the communicator is an intra-communicator, these groups are the same, and the operation occurs in a single phase.

When the communicator is an intracommunicator, you can perform an all-to-all operation in-place (the output buffer is used as the input buffer). Use the variable MPI_IN_PLACE as the value of sendbuf. In this case, sendcounts, sdispls, and sendtypes are ignored. The input data of each process is assumed to be in the area where that process would receive its own contribution to the receive buffer.

The specification of counts, types, and displacements should not cause any location to be written more than once.

All arguments on all processes are significant. The comm argument, in particular, must describe the same communicator on all processes.

The offsets of sdispls and rdispls are measured in bytes. Compare this to MPI_Alltoallv, where these offsets are measured in units of sendtype and recvtype, respectively.

Almost all MPI routines return an error value; C routines as the value of the function and Fortran routines in the last argument. C++ functions do not return errors. If the default error handler is set to MPI::ERRORS_THROW_EXCEPTIONS, then on error the C++ exception mechanism will be used to throw an MPI::Exception object.

Before the error value is returned, the current MPI error handler is called. By default, this error handler aborts the MPI job, except for I/O function errors. The error handler may be changed with MPI_Comm_set_errhandler; the predefined error handler MPI_ERRORS_RETURN may be used to cause error values to be returned. Note that MPI does not guarantee that an MPI program can continue past an error.

  MPI_Alltoall
  MPI_Alltoallv