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NAME

       MPI_Publish_name - Publishes a service name associated with a port

SYNTAX

C Syntax

       #include <mpi.h>
       int MPI_Publish_name(const char *service_name, MPI_Info info,
            const char *port_name)

Fortran Syntax

       INCLUDE 'mpif.h'
       MPI_PUBLISH_NAME(SERVICE_NAME, INFO, PORT_NAME, IERROR)
            CHARACTER*(*)  SERVICE_NAME, PORT_NAME
            INTEGER        INFO, IERROR

C++ Syntax

       #include <mpi.h>
       void MPI::Publish_name(const char* service_name, const MPI::Info& info,
            const char* port_name)

INPUT PARAMETERS

       service_name  A service name (string).

       info          Options to the name service functions (handle).

       port_name     A port name (string).

OUTPUT PARAMETER

       IERROR        Fortran only: Error status (integer).

DESCRIPTION

       This  routine  publishes  the  pair  (service_name,  port_name) so that an application may
       retrieve port_name by calling MPI_Lookup_name with service_name as an argument. It  is  an
       error  to publish the same service_name twice, or to use a port_name argument that was not
       previously opened by the calling process via a call to MPI_Open_port.

INFO ARGUMENTS

       The following keys for info are recognized:

       Key                   Type      Description
       ---                   ----      -----------

       ompi_global_scope     bool      If set to true, publish the name in
                                       the global scope.  Publish in the local
                                       scope otherwise.  See the NAME SCOPE
                                       section for more details.

       ompi_unique           bool      If set to true, return an error if the
                                       specified service_name already exists.
                                       Default to overwriting any pre-existing
                                       value.

       bool info keys are actually strings but are evaluated as follows: if the string value is a
       number,  it  is  converted to an integer and cast to a boolean (meaning that zero integers
       are false and non-zero values are true).  If the string value is (case-insensitive)  "yes"
       or  "true",  the  boolean  is  true.   If  the  string value is (case-insensitive) "no" or
       "false", the boolean is false.  All other string values are  unrecognized,  and  therefore
       false.

       If  no  info  key is provided, the function will first check to see if a global server has
       been specified and is available. If so, then the publish function will default  to  global
       scope  first,  followed  by  local. Otherwise, the data will default to publish with local
       scope.

NAME SCOPE

       Open MPI supports two name scopes: global and local. Local scope will place the  specified
       service/port pair in a data store located on the mpirun of the calling process' job. Thus,
       data published with local scope will only be accessible to processes in  jobs  spawned  by
       that  mpirun  -  e.g.,  processes  in  the  calling  process'  job, or in jobs spawned via
       MPI_Comm_spawn.

       Global scope places the specified service/port pair in a data store located on  a  central
       server  that  is  accessible to all jobs running in the cluster or environment. Thus, data
       published  with  global  scope  can  be  accessed  by  multiple  mpiruns  and   used   for
       MPI_Comm_Connect and MPI_Comm_accept between jobs.

       Note that global scope operations require both the presence of the central server and that
       the calling process be able to communicate to that server. MPI_Publish_name will return an
       error  if  global scope is specified and a global server is either not specified or cannot
       be found.

       Open MPI provides a server called ompi-server to support global scope  operations.  Please
       refer to its manual page for a more detailed description of data store/lookup operations.

       As an example of the impact of these scoping rules, consider the case where a job has been
       started with mpirun - call this job "job1". A process in  job1  creates  and  publishes  a
       service/port  pair  using  a  local scope. Open MPI will store this data in the data store
       within mpirun.

       A process in job1 (perhaps the same as did the publish, or perhaps some other  process  in
       the  job)  subsequently  calls  MPI_Comm_spawn to start another job (call it "job2") under
       this mpirun. Since the two jobs share a common mpirun, both  jobs  have  access  to  local
       scope  data. Hence, a process in job2 can perform an MPI_Lookup_name with a local scope to
       retrieve the information.

       However, assume another user starts a job using mpirun - call this job "job3". Because the
       service/port data published by job1 specified local scope, processes in job3 cannot access
       that data. In contrast, if the data had  been  published  using  global  scope,  then  any
       process  in job3 could access the data, provided that mpirun was given knowledge of how to
       contact the central server and the process could establish communication with it.

ERRORS

       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.

       See the MPI man page for a full list of MPI error codes.

SEE ALSO

       MPI_Lookup_name
       MPI_Open_port