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MPI_Alltoallw - All processes send data of different types to, and
receive data of different types from, all processes
#include <mpi.h>
int MPI_Alltoallw(void *sendbuf, int *sendcounts,
int *sdispls, MPI_Datatype *sendtypes,
void *recvbuf, int *recvcounts,
int *rdispls, MPI_Datatype *recvtypes, MPI_Comm comm)
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
#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.
- 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.
The MPI_IN_PLACE option is not available for any
form of all-to-all communication.
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
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