DeinoMPI

The Great and Terrible implementation of MPI-2

MPI_Comm_connect

Make a request to form a new intercommunicator

int MPI_Comm_connect(
  char *port_name,
  MPI_Info info,
  int root,
  MPI_Comm comm,
  MPI_Comm *newcomm
);

Parameters

port_name: [in] network address (string, used only on root)
info: [in] implementation-dependent information (handle, used only on root)
root: [in] rank in comm of root node (integer)
comm: [in] intracommunicator over which call is collective (handle)
newcomm: [out] intercommunicator with server as remote group (handle)

Remarks

This routine establishes communication with a server specified by port_name. It is collective over the calling communicator and returns an intercommunicator in which the remote group participated in an MPI_COMM_ACCEPT.

If the named port does not exist (or has been closed), MPI_COMM_CONNECT raises an error of class MPI_ERR_PORT.

If the port exists, but does not have a pending MPI_COMM_ACCEPT, the connection attempt will eventually time out after an implementation-defined time, or succeed when the server calls MPI_COMM_ACCEPT. In the case of a time out, MPI_COMM_CONNECT raises an error of class MPI_ERR_PORT.

Thread and Interrupt Safety

This routine is thread-safe. This means that this routine may be safely used by multiple threads without the need for any user-provided thread locks. However, the routine is not interrupt safe. Typically, this is due to the use of memory allocation routines such as mallocor other non-MPICH runtime routines that are themselves not interrupt-safe.

Notes for Fortran

All MPI routines in Fortran (except for MPI_WTIME and MPI_WTICK) have an additional argument ierr at the end of the argument list. ierris an integer and has the same meaning as the return value of the routine in C. In Fortran, MPI routines are subroutines, and are invoked with the call statement.

All MPI objects (e.g., MPI_Datatype, MPI_Comm) are of type INTEGERin Fortran.

Errors

All MPI routines (except MPI_Wtime and MPI_Wtick) return an error value; C routines as the value of the function and Fortran routines in the last argument. Before the value is returned, the current MPI error handler is called. By default, this error handler aborts the MPI job. The error handler may be changed with MPI_Comm_set_errhandler (for communicators), MPI_File_set_errhandler (for files), and MPI_Win_set_errhandler (for RMA windows). The MPI-1 routine MPI_Errhandler_set may be used but its use is deprecated. The predefined error handler MPI_ERRORS_RETURN may be used to cause error values to be returned. Note that MPI does not guarentee that an MPI program can continue past an error; however, MPI implementations will attempt to continue whenever possible.

MPI_SUCCESS: No error; MPI routine completed successfully.

MPI_ERR_COMM: Invalid communicator. A common error is to use a null communicator in a call (not even allowed in MPI_Comm_rank).

MPI_ERR_INFO: Invalid Info

MPI_ERR_PORT

Example Code

The following sample code illustrates MPI_Comm_connect.

#include "mpi.h"
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <windows.h> /* Sleep */

/* This test checks to make sure that two MPI_Comm_connects to two different MPI ports
* match their corresponding MPI_Comm_accepts. The root process opens two MPI ports and
* sends the first port to process 1 and the second to process 2. Then the root process
* accepts a connection from the second port followed by the first port.
* Processes 1 and 2 both connect back to the root but process 2 first sleeps for three
* seconds to give process 1 time to attempt to connect to the root. The root should wait
* until process 2 connects before accepting the connection from process 1.
*/
int main( int argc, char *argv[] )
{
    int num_errors = 0;
    int rank, size;
    char port1[MPI_MAX_PORT_NAME];
    char port2[MPI_MAX_PORT_NAME];
    MPI_Status status;
    MPI_Comm comm1, comm2;
    int data = 0;

    MPI_Init(&argc, &argv);
    MPI_Comm_size(MPI_COMM_WORLD, &size);
    MPI_Comm_rank(MPI_COMM_WORLD, &rank);
    if (size < 3)
    {
        printf("Three processes needed to run this test.\n");fflush(stdout);
        MPI_Finalize();
        return 0;
    }

    if (rank == 0)
    {
        printf("0: opening ports.\n");fflush(stdout);
        MPI_Open_port(MPI_INFO_NULL, port1);
        MPI_Open_port(MPI_INFO_NULL, port2);
        printf("opened port1: <%s>\n", port1);
        printf("opened port2: <%s>\n", port2);fflush(stdout);

        MPI_Send(port1, MPI_MAX_PORT_NAME, MPI_CHAR, 1, 0, MPI_COMM_WORLD);
        MPI_Send(port2, MPI_MAX_PORT_NAME, MPI_CHAR, 2, 0, MPI_COMM_WORLD);

        printf("accepting port2.\n");fflush(stdout);
        MPI_Comm_accept(port2, MPI_INFO_NULL, 0, MPI_COMM_SELF, &comm2);
        printf("accepting port1.\n");fflush(stdout);
        MPI_Comm_accept(port1, MPI_INFO_NULL, 0, MPI_COMM_SELF, &comm1);
        MPI_Close_port(port1);
        MPI_Close_port(port2);

        printf("sending 1 to process 1.\n");fflush(stdout);
        data = 1;
        MPI_Send(&data, 1, MPI_INT, 0, 0, comm1);
        printf("sending 2 to process 2.\n");fflush(stdout);
        data = 2;
        MPI_Send(&data, 1, MPI_INT, 0, 0, comm2);

        MPI_Comm_disconnect(&comm1);
        MPI_Comm_disconnect(&comm2);
    }
    else if (rank == 1)
    {
        MPI_Recv(port1, MPI_MAX_PORT_NAME, MPI_CHAR, 0, 0, MPI_COMM_WORLD, &status);
        MPI_Comm_connect(port1, MPI_INFO_NULL, 0, MPI_COMM_SELF, &comm1);
        MPI_Recv(&data, 1, MPI_INT, 0, 0, comm1, &status);
        if (data != 1)
        {
            printf("Received %d from root when expecting 1\n", data);
            fflush(stdout);
            num_errors++;
        }
        MPI_Comm_disconnect(&comm1);
    }
    else if (rank == 2)
    {
        MPI_Recv(port2, MPI_MAX_PORT_NAME, MPI_CHAR, 0, 0, MPI_COMM_WORLD, &status);
        /* make sure process 1 has time to do the connect before this process attempts to connect */
        Sleep(3000);
        MPI_Comm_connect(port2, MPI_INFO_NULL, 0, MPI_COMM_SELF, &comm2);
        MPI_Recv(&data, 1, MPI_INT, 0, 0, comm2, &status);
        if (data != 2)
        {
            printf("Received %d from root when expecting 2\n", data);
            fflush(stdout);
            num_errors++;
        }
        MPI_Comm_disconnect(&comm2);
    }
    MPI_Barrier(MPI_COMM_WORLD);
    MPI_Finalize();
    return 0;
}

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