Natarajan CS wrote:
Hello all,
Firstly, My apologies for a duplicate post in LAM/MPI list I
have the following simple MPI code. I was wondering if there was a
workaround for sending a dynamically allocated 2-D matrix? Currently I
can send the matrix row-by-row, however, since rows are not contiguous
I cannot send the entire matrix at once. I realize one option is to
change the malloc to act as one contiguous block but can I keep the
matrix definition as below and still send the entire matrix in one go?
You mean with one standard MPI call? I don't think so.
In MPI, there is a notion of derived datatypes, but I'm not convinced
this is what you want. A derived datatype is basically a static
template of data and holes in memory. E.g., 3 bytes, then skip 7 bytes,
then another 2 bytes, then skip 500 bytes, then 1 last byte. Something
like that. Your 2d matrices differ in two respects. One is that the
pattern in memory is different for each matrix you allocate. The other
is that your matrix definition includes pointer information that won't
be the same in every process's address space. I guess you could
overcome the first problem by changing alloc_matrix() to some fixed
pattern in memory for some r and c, but you'd still have pointer
information in there that you couldn't blindly copy from one process
address space to another.
