Flavors of communication

Flavors of Communication

• For a send operation there are:

  4 communication modes

  2 blocking modes

  types of send

• For a receive operation there are:

  1 communication mode

  2 blocking modes

  types of receive

• Naming convention of send routines is:

  mpi_[-,i][-,r,s,b]send

  [-,i] = blocking mode

  [-,r,s,b] = communication mode

• Naming convention of receive routines is:

  mpi_[-,i]recv