On May 9, 2014, at 8:34 PM, Spenser Gilliland <spen...@gillilanding.com> wrote:

> Thanks for the quick response.  I'm having alot of fun learning MPI and this 
> mailing list has been invaluable.  
> 
> So,  If I do a scatter on an inter communicator will this use all left 
> process to scatter on all right processes?

Yes.  And vice versa (simultaneously).  See the official description of 
MPI_SCATTER, including its definition for what happens on intercommunicators in 
the MPI-3.0 document:

    http://www.mpi-forum.org/docs/mpi-3.0/mpi30-report.pdf

The description for MPI_SCATTER starts on p159.

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