MPI_Cart_shift

Returns the shifted source and destination ranks, given a shift direction and amount

Synopsis

#include "mpi.h"
int MPI_Cart_shift ( comm, direction, displ, source, dest )
MPI_Comm  comm;
int       direction;
int       displ;
int      *source;
int      *dest;

Input Parameters

	comm	communicator with cartesian structure (handle)
	direction	coordinate dimension of shift (integer)
	disp	displacement (> 0: upwards shift, < 0: downwards shift) (integer)

Output Parameters

	rank_source	rank of source process (integer)
	rank_dest	rank of destination process (integer)

Notes

The direction argument is in the range [0,n-1] for an n- dimensionalCartesian mesh.

Notes for Fortran

All MPI routines in Fortran (except for MPI_WTIME and MPI_WTICK) havean additional argument ierr at the end of the argument list. ierris an integer and has the same meaning as the return value of the routinein C. In Fortran, MPI routines are subroutines, and are invoked with thecall 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 lastargument. Before the value is returned, the current MPI error handler iscalled. By default, this error handler aborts the MPI job. The error handlermay be changed with MPI_Errhandler_set; the predefined error handlerMPI_ERRORS_RETURN may be used to cause error values to be returned. Note that MPI does not guarentee that an MPI program can continue pastan error.

MPI_SUCCESS: No error; MPI routine completed successfully.

MPI_ERR_TOPOLOGY: Invalid topology. Either there is no topology associated with this communicator, or it is not the correct type (e.g., MPI_CART when expecting MPI_GRAPH).

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_ARG: Invalid argument. Some argument is invalid and is not identified by a specific error class (e.g., MPI_ERR_RANK).

Location:cart_shift.c