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MPI
Open MPI is an open source implementation of MPI (message-passing interface), the
industry-standard specification for writing message-passing programs. Message passing is a
programming model that gives the programmer explicit control over interprocess
communication.
The MPI specification was developed by the MPI Forum, a group of software developers,
computer vendors, academics, and computer-science researchers whose goal was to develop a
standard for writing message-passing programs that would be efficient, flexible, and
portable.
The outcome, known as the MPI Standard, was first published in 1993; its most recent
version (MPI-2) was published in July 1997. Open MPI 1.2 includes all MPI 1.2-compliant
and MPI 2-compliant routines.
For more information about Open MPI, see the following URL:
http://www.open-mpi.org
The MPI standards are available at the following URL:
http://www.mpi-forum.org
MAN PAGE SYNTAX
Man pages for Open MPI and Open MPI I/O routines are named according to C syntax, that is,
they begin with the prefix "MPI_", all in uppercase, and the first letter following the
"MPI_" prefix is also uppercase. The rest of the letters in the routine are all lowercase,
for example, "MPI_Comm_get_attr".
ENVIRONMENT
To fine-tune your Open MPI environment, you can either use arguments to the mpirun,
orterun, or mpiexec commands, or you can use MCA parameters.
For more information on arguments, see the orterun.1 man page.
For a complete listing of MCA parameters and their descriptions, issue the command
ompi_info -h or ompi_info -param all all. This information also appears in the FAQ on the
Open MPI web site at:
http://www.open-mpi.org/faq/?category=tuning#mca-params
ERRORS
All MPI routines (except MPI_Wtime and MPI_Wtick) return an error value; C routines as the
value of the function and Fortran routines in the last argument. Before the value is
returned, the current MPI error handler is called. By default, this error handler aborts
the MPI job. 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.
For more information on Open MPI error codes, see mpi.h in the include directory.
Standard error return classes for Open MPI:
MPI_SUCCESS 0 Successful return code.
MPI_ERR_BUFFER 1 Invalid buffer pointer.
MPI_ERR_COUNT 2 Invalid count argument.
MPI_ERR_TYPE 3 Invalid datatype argument.
MPI_ERR_TAG 4 Invalid tag argument.
MPI_ERR_COMM 5 Invalid communicator.
MPI_ERR_RANK 6 Invalid rank.
MPI_ERR_REQUEST 7 Invalid MPI_Request handle.
MPI_ERR_ROOT 8 Invalid root.
MPI_ERR_GROUP 9 Null group passed to function.
MPI_ERR_OP 10 Invalid operation.
MPI_ERR_TOPOLOGY 11 Invalid topology.
MPI_ERR_DIMS 12 Illegal dimension argument.
MPI_ERR_ARG 13 Invalid argument.
MPI_ERR_UNKNOWN 14 Unknown error.
MPI_ERR_TRUNCATE 15 Message truncated on receive.
MPI_ERR_OTHER 16 Other error; use Error_string.
MPI_ERR_INTERN 17 Internal error code.
MPI_ERR_IN_STATUS 18 Look in status for error value.
MPI_ERR_PENDING 19 Pending request.
MPI_ERR_ACCESS 20 Permission denied.
MPI_ERR_AMODE 21 Unsupported amode passed to open.
MPI_ERR_ASSERT 22 Invalid assert.
MPI_ERR_BAD_FILE 23 Invalid file name (for example,
path name too long).
MPI_ERR_BASE 24 Invalid base.
MPI_ERR_CONVERSION 25 An error occurred in a user-supplied
data-conversion function.
MPI_ERR_DISP 26 Invalid displacement.
MPI_ERR_DUP_DATAREP 27 Conversion functions could not
be registered because a data
representation identifier that was
already defined was passed to
MPI_REGISTER_DATAREP.
MPI_ERR_FILE_EXISTS 28 File exists.
MPI_ERR_FILE_IN_USE 29 File operation could not be
completed, as the file is currently
open by some process.
MPI_ERR_FILE 30 Invalid file handle.
MPI_ERR_INFO_KEY 31 Illegal info key.
MPI_ERR_INFO_NOKEY 32 No such key.
MPI_ERR_INFO_VALUE 33 Illegal info value.
MPI_ERR_INFO 34 Invalid info object.
MPI_ERR_IO 35 I/O error.
MPI_ERR_KEYVAL 36 Illegal key value.
MPI_ERR_LOCKTYPE 37 Invalid locktype.
MPI_ERR_NAME 38 Name not found.
MPI_ERR_NO_MEM 39 Memory exhausted.
MPI_ERR_NOT_SAME 40 Collective argument not identical
on all processes, or collective
routines called in a different order
by different processes.
MPI_ERR_NO_SPACE 41 Not enough space.
MPI_ERR_NO_SUCH_FILE 42 File (or directory) does not exist.
MPI_ERR_PORT 43 Invalid port.
MPI_ERR_QUOTA 44 Quota exceeded.
MPI_ERR_READ_ONLY 45 Read-only file system.
MPI_ERR_RMA_CONFLICT 46 Conflicting accesses to window.
MPI_ERR_RMA_SYNC 47 Erroneous RMA synchronization.
MPI_ERR_SERVICE 48 Invalid publish/unpublish.
MPI_ERR_SIZE 49 Invalid size.
MPI_ERR_SPAWN 50 Error spawning.
MPI_ERR_UNSUPPORTED_DATAREP
51 Unsupported datarep passed to
MPI_File_set_view.
MPI_ERR_UNSUPPORTED_OPERATION
52 Unsupported operation, such as
seeking on a file that supports
only sequential access.
MPI_ERR_WIN 53 Invalid window.
MPI_T_ERR_MEMORY 54 Out of memory.
MPI_T_ERR_NOT_INITIALIZED 55 Interface not initialized.
MPI_T_ERR_CANNOT_INIT 56 Interface not in the state to be
initialized.
MPI_T_ERR_INVALID_INDEX 57 The enumeration index is invalid.
MPI_T_ERR_INVALID_ITEM 58 The item index queried is out of
range.
MPI_T_ERR_INVALID_HANDLE 59 The handle is invalid.
MPI_T_ERR_OUT_OF_HANDLES 60 No more handles available.
MPI_T_ERR_OUT_OF_SESSIONS 61 No more sessions available.
MPI_T_ERR_INVALID_SESSION 62 Session argument is not a valid
session.
MPI_T_ERR_CVAR_SET_NOT_NOW
63 Variable cannot be set at this
moment.
MPI_T_ERR_CVAR_SET_NEVER 64 Variable cannot be set until end of
execution.
MPI_T_ERR_PVAR_NO_STARTSTOP
65 Variable cannot be started or stopped.
MPI_T_ERR_PVAR_NO_WRITE 66 Variable cannot be written or reset.
MPI_T_ERR_PVAR_NO_ATOMIC 67 Variable cannot be read and written
atomically.
MPI_ERR_RMA_RANGE 68 Target memory is not part of the
window (in the case of a window
created with MPI_WIN_CREATE_DYNAMIC,
target memory is not attached).
MPI_ERR_RMA_ATTACH 69 Memory cannot be attached (e.g.,
because of resource exhaustion).
MPI_ERR_RMA_FLAVOR 70 Passed window has the wrong flavor
for the called function.
MPI_ERR_RMA_SHARED 71 Memory cannot be shared (e.g., some
process in the group of the specified
communicator cannot expose shared
memory).
MPI_T_ERR_INVALID 72 Invalid use of the interface or bad
parameter values(s).
MPI_T_ERR_INVALID_NAME 73 The variable or category name is
invalid.
MPI_ERR_LASTCODE 93 Last error code.