On 8 Jan 2011, at 12:05, Hicham Mouline wrote: > Hi > > Will MPI_Probe return that there is a message pending reception if the sender > MPI_Bcast a message?
No. > Is the only way to receive a broadcast from the root is to call MPI_BCast in > the slave? Yes. Broadcast and the other collective operations are just that, "collective" and have to be called from all ranks in a communicator with the same parameters and in the same order. Ashley. -- Ashley Pittman, Bath, UK. Padb - A parallel job inspection tool for cluster computing http://padb.pittman.org.uk
