MPI: A Message Passing Interface Standard Mpi31 Manual

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Abstract
History
Contents
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
Acknowledgments
1 Introduction to MPI
- 1.1 Overview and Goals
- 1.2 Background of MPI-1.0
- 1.3 Background of MPI-1.1, MPI-1.2, and MPI-2.0
- 1.4 Background of MPI-1.3 and MPI-2.1
- 1.5 Background of MPI-2.2
- 1.6 Background of MPI-3.0
- 1.7 Background of MPI-3.1
- 1.8 Who Should Use This Standard?
- 1.9 What Platforms Are Targets For Implementation?
- 1.10 What Is Included In The Standard?
- 1.11 What Is Not Included In The Standard?
- 1.12 Organization of this Document
2 MPI Terms and Conventions
- 2.1 Document Notation
- 2.2 Naming Conventions
- 2.3 Procedure Specification
- 2.4 Semantic Terms
- 2.5 Data Types
- 2.6 Language Binding
- 2.7 Processes
- 2.8 Error Handling
- 2.9 Implementation Issues
  - 2.9.1 Independence of Basic Runtime Routines
  - 2.9.2 Interaction with Signals
- 2.10 Examples
3 Point-to-Point Communication
- 3.1 Introduction
- 3.2 Blocking Send and Receive Operations
- 3.3 Data Type Matching and Data Conversion
  - 3.3.1 Type Matching Rules
    - Type MPI_CHARACTER
  - 3.3.2 Data Conversion
- 3.4 Communication Modes
- 3.5 Semantics of Point-to-Point Communication
- 3.6 Buffer Allocation and Usage
  - 3.6.1 Model Implementation of Buffered Mode
- 3.7 Nonblocking Communication
- 3.8 Probe and Cancel
- 3.9 Persistent Communication Requests
- 3.10 Send-Receive
- 3.11 Null Processes
4 Datatypes
- 4.1 Derived Datatypes
- 4.2 Pack and Unpack
- 4.3 Canonical MPI_PACK and MPI_UNPACK
5 Collective Communication
- 5.1 Introduction and Overview
- 5.2 Communicator Argument
- 5.3 Barrier Synchronization
- 5.4 Broadcast
  - 5.4.1 Example using MPI_BCAST
- 5.5 Gather
  - 5.5.1 Examples using MPI_GATHER, MPI_GATHERV
- 5.6 Scatter
  - 5.6.1 Examples using MPI_SCATTER, MPI_SCATTERV
- 5.7 Gather-to-all
  - 5.7.1 Example using MPI_ALLGATHER
- 5.8 All-to-All Scatter/Gather
- 5.9 Global Reduction Operations
- 5.10 Reduce-Scatter
  - 5.10.1 MPI_REDUCE_SCATTER_BLOCK
  - 5.10.2 MPI_REDUCE_SCATTER
- 5.11 Scan
- 5.12 Nonblocking Collective Operations
- 5.13 Correctness
6 Groups, Contexts, Communicators, and Caching
- 6.1 Introduction
  - 6.1.1 Features Needed to Support Libraries
  - 6.1.2 MPI's Support for Libraries
- 6.2 Basic Concepts
- 6.3 Group Management
- 6.4 Communicator Management
- 6.5 Motivating Examples
- 6.6 Inter-Communication
- 6.7 Caching
- 6.8 Naming Objects
- 6.9 Formalizing the Loosely Synchronous Model
  - 6.9.1 Basic Statements
  - 6.9.2 Models of Execution
7 Process Topologies
- 7.1 Introduction
- 7.2 Virtual Topologies
- 7.3 Embedding in MPI
- 7.4 Overview of the Functions
- 7.5 Topology Constructors
- 7.6 Neighborhood Collective Communication
  - 7.6.1 Neighborhood Gather
  - 7.6.2 Neighbor Alltoall
- 7.7 Nonblocking Neighborhood Communication
  - 7.7.1 Nonblocking Neighborhood Gather
  - 7.7.2 Nonblocking Neighborhood Alltoall
- 7.8 An Application Example
8 MPI Environmental Management
- 8.1 Implementation Information
  - 8.1.1 Version Inquiries
  - 8.1.2 Environmental Inquiries
- 8.2 Memory Allocation
- 8.3 Error Handling
- 8.4 Error Codes and Classes
- 8.5 Error Classes, Error Codes, and Error Handlers
- 8.6 Timers and Synchronization
- 8.7 Startup
  - 8.7.1 Allowing User Functions at Process Termination
  - 8.7.2 Determining Whether MPI Has Finished
- 8.8 Portable MPI Process Startup
9 The Info Object
10 Process Creation and Management
- 10.1 Introduction
- 10.2 The Dynamic Process Model
  - 10.2.1 Starting Processes
  - 10.2.2 The Runtime Environment
- 10.3 Process Manager Interface
- 10.4 Establishing Communication
- 10.5 Other Functionality
11 One-Sided Communications
- 11.1 Introduction
- 11.2 Initialization
- 11.3 Communication Calls
- 11.4 Memory Model
- 11.5 Synchronization Calls
- 11.6 Error Handling
  - 11.6.1 Error Handlers
  - 11.6.2 Error Classes
- 11.7 Semantics and Correctness
- 11.8 Examples
12 External Interfaces
- 12.1 Introduction
- 12.2 Generalized Requests
  - 12.2.1 Examples
- 12.3 Associating Information with Status
- 12.4 MPI and Threads
13 I/O
- 13.1 Introduction
  - 13.1.1 Definitions
- 13.2 File Manipulation
- 13.3 File Views
- 13.4 Data Access
- 13.5 File Interoperability
- 13.6 Consistency and Semantics
- 13.7 I/O Error Handling
- 13.8 I/O Error Classes
- 13.9 Examples
  - 13.9.1 Double Buffering with Split Collective I/O
  - 13.9.2 Subarray Filetype Constructor
14 Tool Support
- 14.1 Introduction
- 14.2 Profiling Interface
- 14.3 The MPI Tool Information Interface
15 Deprecated Functions
- 15.1 Deprecated since MPI-2.0
- 15.2 Deprecated since MPI-2.2
16 Removed Interfaces
- 16.1 Removed MPI-1 Bindings
- 16.2 C++ Bindings
17 Language Bindings
- 17.1 Fortran Support
- 17.2 Language Interoperability
A Language Bindings Summary
- A.1 Defined Values and Handles
- A.2 C Bindings
- A.3 Fortran 2008 Bindings with the mpi_f08 Module
- A.4 Fortran Bindings with mpif.h or the mpi Module
B Change-Log
- B.1 Changes from Version 3.0 to Version 3.1
  - B.1.1 Fixes to Errata in Previous Versions of MPI
  - B.1.2 Changes in MPI-3.1
- B.2 Changes from Version 2.2 to Version 3.0
  - B.2.1 Fixes to Errata in Previous Versions of MPI
  - B.2.2 Changes in MPI-3.0
- B.3 Changes from Version 2.1 to Version 2.2
- B.4 Changes from Version 2.0 to Version 2.1
Bibliography
General Index
Examples Index
MPI Constant and Predefined Handle Index
MPI Declarations Index
MPI Callback Function Prototype Index
MPI Function Index

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