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

6       MPI_Comm_group -  Accesses the group associated with given communicator
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SYNOPSIS

9       #include <mpi.h>
10       int MPI_Comm_group(MPI_Comm comm, MPI_Group *pgroup)
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INPUT PARAMETER

13       comm   - Communicator
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OUTPUT PARAMETER

17       pgroup - Group in communicator
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USING 'MPI_COMM_NULL' WITH 'MPI_COMM_GROUP'

21       It  is  an  error  to  use  MPI_COMM_NULL  as  one  of the arguments to
22       MPI_Comm_group .  The relevant sections of the MPI standard are
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24       (2.4.1 Opaque Objects) A null handle argument is an erroneous IN  argu‐
25       ment in MPI calls, unless an exception is explicitly stated in the text
26       that defines the function.
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28       (5.3.2. Group Constructors) <no text in MPI_COMM_GROUP allowing a  null
29       handle>
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NOTES FOR FORTRAN

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

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

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

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

93       cgroup.c
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97LAM/MPI 7.1.2                      2/23/2006                 MPI_Comm_group(3)
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