MPI Process Management Functions

In this section

• MPI_Close_port
  Closes the port.

• MPI_Comm_accept
  Accepts a request to form a new intercommunicator.

• MPI_Comm_connect
  Make a request to form a new intercommunicator.

• MPI_Comm_disconnect
  Disconnect from a communicator.

• MPI_Comm_get_parent
  Returns the parent communicator for this process.

• MPI_Comm_join
  Creates a communicator by joining two processes connected by a socket.

• MPI_Comm_spawn
  Spawns up to maxprocs instances of a single MPI application.

• MPI_Comm_spawn_multiple
  Spawns multiple binaries or the same binary with multiple sets of arguments, establishing communication with them and placing them in the same MPI_COMM_WORLD.

• MPI_Lookup_name
  Looks up a port given a service name.

• MPI_Open_port
  Establishes an address that can be used to establish connections between groups of MPI processes.

• MPI_Publish_name
  Publishes a service name for use with MPI_Comm_connect.

• MPI_Unpublish_name
  Unpublish a service name, that was previously published with MPI_Publish_name.