On Jun 14, 2012, at 8:43 PM, Ramesh Vinayagam wrote: > I was wondering is there a way to communicate between two processes with two > different communicators simultaneously in MPI? Like having two channels for > communication?
I'm not quite sure what you're asking. Are you asking if it's possible to have 2 processes share 2 entirely different communicators (and use both of them for communication)? If so, yes. Any set of processes can have any number of shared communicators. For example: MPI_Comm foo; MPI_Comm_dup(MPI_COMM_WORLD, &foo); Now foo will be a duplicate of MPI_COMM_WORLD, but with a different communication context (so that messages sent on MCW won't be received on foo, and vice versa). Hence, you can send a message on MCW to any peer in that communicator, but you can also send a message on foo to any peer in that communicator. Note, however, that sending multiple messages on different communicators to the same peer doesn't (usually) expand your available bandwidth. Think of communicators (and tags, too), as message matching mechanisms rather than bandwidth-multiplying mechanisms. For example, you might send control messages on "foo", but send data messages on MPI_COMM_WORLD. Hope that helps. -- Jeff Squyres jsquy...@cisco.com For corporate legal information go to: http://www.cisco.com/web/about/doing_business/legal/cri/
