Hi,
I would like my MPI processes to exchange some structural data. That
data is represented by plain structures containing basic datatypes. I
would like to use MPI derived datatypes, because of its portability
and good performance.
I would like to be able to send/receive any of my structures in the
same part of code. In the low-level network programming it is usually
done by having each struct of this pattern:
struct S1 {
int structType;
...
}
And then you first read structType and know what bytes to expect next.
Is there a good way to do it using MPI derived datatypes?
I was thinking of having separate MPI_Request for each of my
structures and calling multiple MPI_Irecv + MPI_Waitany. But then, how
to do this for MPI_Bcast?
My second question is about having arbitrary size structures, i.e. the
ones having 'char buf[0]' as the last field, where you allocate memory
of size 'sizeof(S) + bufLen'. Is there a way to convert such a struct
into MPI derived datatype?
Thanks for any help,
Regards,
Grzegorz Maj
