1MPI_Cart_shift(3)                   LAM/MPI                  MPI_Cart_shift(3)
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NAME

6       MPI_Cart_shift  -   Returns  the  shifted source and destination ranks,
7       given a  shift direction and amount
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SYNOPSIS

10       #include <mpi.h>
11       int MPI_Cart_shift(MPI_Comm comm, int dim, int disp,
12                         int *psrc, int *pdest)
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INPUT PARAMETERS

15       comm   - communicator with cartesian structure (handle)
16       dim    - coordinate dimension of shift (integer)
17       disp   - displacement (> 0: upwards shift, < 0: downwards shift) (inte‐
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OUTPUT PARAMETERS

22       psrc   - rank of source process (integer)
23       pdest  - rank of destination process (integer)
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NOTES

27       The dim argument is in the range [0,n-1] for an n-dimensional Cartesian
28       mesh.
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NOTES FOR FORTRAN

32       All MPI routines in Fortran (except for MPI_WTIME and MPI_WTICK )  have
33       an  additional  argument ierr at the end of the argument list.  ierr is
34       an integer and has the same meaning as the return value of the  routine
35       in  C.   In Fortran, MPI routines are subroutines, and are invoked with
36       the call statement.
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38       All MPI objects (e.g., MPI_Datatype , MPI_Comm ) are of type INTEGER in
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ERRORS

43       If an error occurs in an MPI function, the current MPI error handler is
44       called to handle it.  By default, this error  handler  aborts  the  MPI
45       job.   The  error  handler may be changed with MPI_Errhandler_set ; the
46       predefined error handler MPI_ERRORS_RETURN may be used to  cause  error
47       values  to  be  returned  (in C and Fortran; this error handler is less
48       useful in with the C++ MPI  bindings.   The  predefined  error  handler
49       MPI::ERRORS_THROW_EXCEPTIONS  should  be used in C++ if the error value
50       needs to be recovered).  Note that MPI does not guarantee that  an  MPI
51       program can continue past an error.
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53       All  MPI  routines  (except  MPI_Wtime  and MPI_Wtick ) return an error
54       value; C routines as the value of the function and Fortran routines  in
55       the  last  argument.  The C++ bindings for MPI do not return error val‐
56       ues; instead, error values are communicated by throwing  exceptions  of
57       type  MPI::Exception  (but not by default).  Exceptions are only thrown
58       if the error value is not MPI::SUCCESS .
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61       Note that if the MPI::ERRORS_RETURN handler is set in  C++,  while  MPI
62       functions  will  return  upon an error, there will be no way to recover
63       what the actual error value was.
64       MPI_SUCCESS
65              - No error; MPI routine completed successfully.
66       MPI_ERR_TOPOLOGY
67              - Invalid topology.  Either there is no topology associated with
68              this communicator, or it is not the correct type (e.g., MPI_CART
69              when expecting MPI_GRAPH ).
70       MPI_ERR_DIMS
71              - Illegal dimension argument.  A dimension argument is  null  or
72              its length is less than or equal to zero.
73       MPI_ERR_COMM
74              -  Invalid communicator.  A common error is to use a null commu‐
75              nicator in a call (not even allowed in MPI_Comm_rank ).
76       MPI_ERR_ARG
77              - Invalid argument.  Some argument is invalid and is not identi‐
78              fied  by  a  specific  error  class.   This  is typically a NULL
79              pointer or other such error.
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MORE INFORMATION

83       For more information, please see the official MPI Forum web site, which
84       contains  the  text of both the MPI-1 and MPI-2 standards.  These docu‐
85       ments contain detailed information about each  MPI  function  (most  of
86       which is not duplicated in these man pages).
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88       http://www.mpi-forum.org/
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

93       The  LAM Team would like the thank the MPICH Team for the handy program
94       to generate man pages  ("doctext"  from  ftp://ftp.mcs.anl.gov/pub/sow‐
95       ing/sowing.tar.gz  ), the initial formatting, and some initial text for
96       most of the MPI-1 man pages.
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LOCATION

99       cartshift.c
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103LAM/MPI 7.1.2                      2/23/2006                 MPI_Cart_shift(3)
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