NAME

MPI_Reduce - Reduce a buffer from each process, and store the result at a root process in a communicator

SYNOPSIS

#include <mpi.h> 
int MPI_Reduce(void *sendbuf , void *recvbuf , int count , MPI_Datatype datatype , MPI_Op op ,
	 int root , MPI_Comm comm ); 
#include <pmpi.h> 
int PMPI_Reduce(void *sendbuf , void *recvbuf , int count , MPI_Datatype datatype , MPI_Op op ,
	 int root , MPI_Comm comm ); 

INPUT PARAMETERS

sendbuf - send buffer (array)

count - count of elements in buffers (integer)

datatype - type of elements in buffers (handle)

op - reduction operation to perform (handle)

root - root rank (integer)

comm - communicator for messages (handle)

OUTPUT PARAMETER

recvbuf - receive buffer (array)

DESCRIPTION

The MPI_Reduce() function is used to perform a global reduction over a set of buffers in a communicator, comm . The result of the reduction is stored in the root process in the recvbuf buffer.

The reduction is performed over count elements of type datatype in an array specified by sendbuf .

The operation to perform, op , must be allowable for the datatype chosen. The operation is assumed to be associative, but may not necessarily be commutative. If op is a user operator, the corresponding user function will be called. It is unspecified on which ranks the function will execute, so all processes should pass the same value to this function.

The sends from non-root processes may (or may not) block depending on the amount of internal buffering done in the MPI implementation. At the root, if recvbuf is MPI_IN_PLACE then the destination of the message is taken to be sendbuf . This may result in less internal copy operations.

Note that each process should send the same amount of data to root . If that is not the case, then the messages will be silently truncated, or the operation function may be called on uninitialized data. Note that for performance reasons this MPI library does not check that the sent and received datatypes match.

The communicator must be a valid one (not MPI_COMM_NULL). PMPI_Reduce() is the profiling version of this function.

ERRORS

All MPI routines except for MPI_Wtime and MPI_Wtick return an error value. The the current MPI error handler is invoked if this return value is not MPI_SUCCESS. The default error handler aborts, but this may be changed with by using the MPI_Errhandler_set() function. The predefined error handler MPI_ERRORS_RETURN may be used to cause error values to be returned instead. Note that MPI does not guarentee that an MPI program can continue past an error. In this implementation, all errors except MPI_ERR_INTERN or MPI_ERR_OTHER should always be recoverable.

MPI_SUCCESS - No error;

MPI_ERR_COMM - Invalid communicator;

MPI_ERR_COUNT - Invalid element count;

MPI_ERR_BUFFER - Invalid buffer;

MPI_ERR_TYPE - Invalid data type;

MPI_ERR_ROOT - Invalid root;

MPI_ERR_OP - Invalid operation;

MPI_ERR_INTERN - Out of Memory. This may be fatal.

SEE ALSO

MPI_Op_create (3) MPI_Op_free (3) MPI_Allreduce (3) MPI_Reduce_scatter (3) MPI_Scan (3) MPI_Exscan (3)

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• MPI Documentation
• MPI_Reduce