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MPI_Recv is a function that allows a process to receive messages in a parallel computing environment, with its first six arguments corresponding to those of MPI_Send. It requires specifying the memory for the message, the source process, and the message tag, while also allowing the receiver to access information about the sender and message through the MPI_Status struct. The amount of received data can be determined using MPI_Get_count, which retrieves the number of elements received based on the status of the message.

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Mpi

MPI_Recv is a function that allows a process to receive messages in a parallel computing environment, with its first six arguments corresponding to those of MPI_Send. It requires specifying the memory for the message, the source process, and the message tag, while also allowing the receiver to access information about the sender and message through the MPI_Status struct. The amount of received data can be determined using MPI_Get_count, which retrieves the number of elements received based on the status of the message.

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1 MPI_ Recv

The first six arguments to MPI_Recv correspond to the first six arguments
of MPI_Send:

CS8083 MCP Notes UNIT IV

8 B.Shanmuga Sundari, AP/CSE

The first three arguments specify the memory available for receiving the
message.

msg_buf_p: points to the block of memory

buf_size : determines the number of objects that can be stored in the


block

buf_type:indicates the type of the objects.

The next three arguments identify the message.

source: specifies the process from which the message should be received.

tag: should match the tag argument of the message being sent

communicator: match the communicator used by the sending process.

Message matching

Suppose process q calls MPI Send with

Also suppose that process r calls MPI_Recv with

Then the message sent by q with the above call to MPI_Send can be
received by r with

the call to MPI_Recv if

CS8083 MCP Notes UNIT IV

9 B.Shanmuga Sundari, AP/CSE

If recv_type = send_type and recv_buf_sz= send_buf_sz, then the


message sent by q can

be successfully received by r.

The status_p argument

A receiver can receive a message without knowing

1. the amount of data in the message

2. the sender of the message, or

3. the tag of the message.


The MPI type MPI_Status is a struct with at least the three members MPI_
SOURCE,

MPI_TAG, and MPI_ERROR.

Suppose our program contains the definition MPI_Status status; Then,


after a call to MPI

Recv in which &status is passed as the last argument, we can determine


the sender and

tag by examining the two members

status.MPI SOURCE status.MPI TAG

The amount of data that‘s been received isn‘t stored in a field that‘s
directly accessible to

the application program. However, it can be retrieved with a call to


MPI_Get_count.

Then the call MPI_Get_count(&status, recv type, &count) will return the
number of

elements received in the count argument.

Syntax of MPI Get count

Semantics of MPI Send and MPI Recv

The sending process will assemble the message. For example, it will add
the envelope

information to the actual data being transmitted—the destination process


rank, the

sending process rank, the tag, the communicator, and some information
on the size of the

message. Once the message has been assembled, there are essentially
two possibilities:

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