That would be MPI_BroadCast

On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 9:25 AM, Kechagias Apostolos <pasxal.antix@gmail.com> wrote:
I thought that every process will receive the data as is.
Thanks that solved my problem.

2010/12/13 Gus Correa <gus@ldeo.columbia.edu>

Kechagias Apostolos wrote:
I have the code that is in the attachment.
Can anybody explain how to use scatter function?
It seems that this way im using it doesnt do the job.


------------------------------------------------------------------------


_______________________________________________
users mailing list
users@open-mpi.org
http://www.open-mpi.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/users
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <mpi.h>

int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
       int  error_code, err, rank, size, N, i, N1, start, end;
       
       float  W, pi=0, sum=0;


       
       MPI_Init(&argc, &argv);
       MPI_Comm_rank( MPI_COMM_WORLD, &rank);
       MPI_Comm_size( MPI_COMM_WORLD, &size);

       N=atoi(argv[1]);

       int n[N],data[N];

       N1 = N/size;
       W=1.0/N;
       //printf("N1:%d W:%f\n",N1,W);

       
               
       if(size<2)
       {
               printf("You must have 2 or more ranks to complete this action\n");
               MPI_Abort(MPI_COMM_WORLD,err);
       }
       if(argc<2)
       {
               printf("Not enough arguments given\n");
               MPI_Abort(MPI_COMM_WORLD,err);  
       }



       if(rank == 0) {for(i=0;i<N;i++) n[i]=i;}
       
       MPI_Scatter (n, N1, MPI_INT,data, N1,MPI_INT, 0, MPI_COMM_WORLD);

       pi = 0;
       
       start = rank*N1;
   end = (rank+1)*N1;

       for(i=data[start];i<data[end];i++) pi+=4*W/(1+(i+0.5)*(i+0.5)*W*W);
   //  printf("rank:%d tmppi:%f\n",rank,pi);  
       printf("data[start]:%d data[end]:%d ",data[start],data[end]);

   printf("rankN1:%d rank+1N1:%d\n",start,end);
       MPI_Reduce(&pi, &sum, 1, MPI_FLOAT, MPI_SUM, 0, MPI_COMM_WORLD);


       if (rank == 0) printf("Pi is:%f size:%d\n",sum,size);  
                       
       MPI_Finalize();
}


#########
Hi Kechagias

If you use MPI_Scatter, the receive buffers start receiving
at the zero offset (i.e. at data[0]), not at data[start].
Also, your receive buffers could have size N1, not N.
I guess the MPI_Scatter call is right.
The subsequent code needs to change.
The loop should go from data[0] to data[N1-1].
(However, be careful with edge cases where the number
of processes doesn't divide N evenly.)

Alternatively you could use MPI_Alltoallw to scatter the way
your code suggests you want to do, but that would be an overkill.

_______________________________________________
users mailing list
users@open-mpi.org
http://www.open-mpi.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/users


_______________________________________________
users mailing list
users@open-mpi.org
http://www.open-mpi.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/users



--
David Zhang
University of California, San Diego