[OMPI users] Send data structures

[Ed Peddycoart]

The data that I want to send via MPI is in the form of a struct:
 
struct myDataStruct {
   struct subData1 {
      int position[2];
      int length[2];
   };
   struct subData2 {
      float *data1;
      float *data2;
      float *data3;
      float *data4;
   };
   struct subData3 {
      float *data;
   };
};
 
 
At first I thought I could simply send the data as follows:  
 
struct myDataStruct data = new myDataStruct;
// allocate and fill in data for sub structs
 
MPI_SEND(data, sizeof(data), MPI_BYTE, 0, 19, MPI_COMM_WORLD);
 
but apparently, for several reasons, that isn't going to work.  What is the 
best way to accomplish this? MPI_PACK/MPI_UNPACK?
 
Would I do something like this?
 
MPI_PACK(data->subData1->position, 2, MPI_INT, packBuffer, PACKBUFFER_SIZE, 
&packSize, MPI_COMM_WORLD);
MPI_PACK(data->subData1->length,  2, MPI_INT, packBuffer, PACKBUFFER_SIZE, 
&packSize, MPI_COMM_WORLD);
MPI_PACK(data->subData2->data1,  sizeof(data->subDat2->data1), MPI_FLOAT, 
packBuffer, PACKBUFFER_SIZE, &packSize, MPI_COMM_WORLD);
MPI_PACK(data->subData2->data2,  sizeof(data->subDat2->data1), MPI_FLOAT, 
packBuffer, PACKBUFFER_SIZE, &packSize, MPI_COMM_WORLD); 
MPI_PACK(data->subData2->data3,  sizeof(data->subDat2->data1), MPI_FLOAT, 
packBuffer, PACKBUFFER_SIZE, &packSize, MPI_COMM_WORLD); 
MPI_PACK(data->subData2->data4,  sizeof(data->subDat2->data1), MPI_FLOAT, 
packBuffer, PACKBUFFER_SIZE, &packSize, MPI_COMM_WORLD);
MPI_PACK(data->subData3->data1,  sizeof(data->subDat2->data1), MPI_FLOAT, 
packBuffer, PACKBUFFER_SIZE,  &packSize, MPI_COMM_WORLD);
MPI_Send(packBuffer, packSize, MPI_PACKED, 1, 100, , MPI_COMM_WORLD);
 
Ed