I agree about the names, it is very similar to MIN_LOC and MAX_LOC in
fortran 90.
However, I find difficult to define some algorithm able to do the same
things.



Diego


On 10 August 2018 at 19:03, Nathan Hjelm via users <users@lists.open-mpi.org
> wrote:

> They do not fit with the rest of the predefined operations (which operate
> on a single basic type) and can easily be implemented as user defined
> operations and get the same performance. Add to that the fixed number of
> tuple types and the fact that some of them are non-contiguous
> (MPI_SHORT_INT) plus the terrible names. If I could kill them in MPI-4 I
> would.
>
> On Aug 10, 2018, at 9:47 AM, Diego Avesani <diego.aves...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> Dear all,
> I have just implemented MAXLOC, why should they  go away?
> it seems working pretty well.
>
> thanks
>
> Diego
>
>
> On 10 August 2018 at 17:39, Nathan Hjelm via users <
> users@lists.open-mpi.org> wrote:
>
>> The problem is minloc and maxloc need to go away. better to use a custom
>> op.
>>
>> On Aug 10, 2018, at 9:36 AM, George Bosilca <bosi...@icl.utk.edu> wrote:
>>
>> You will need to create a special variable that holds 2 entries, one for
>> the max operation (with whatever type you need) and an int for the rank of
>> the process. The MAXLOC is described on the OMPI man page [1] and you can
>> find an example on how to use it on the MPI Forum [2].
>>
>> George.
>>
>>
>> [1] https://www.open-mpi.org/doc/v2.0/man3/MPI_Reduce.3.php
>> [2] https://www.mpi-forum.org/docs/mpi-1.1/mpi-11-html/node79.html
>>
>> On Fri, Aug 10, 2018 at 11:25 AM Diego Avesani <diego.aves...@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>>  Dear all,
>>> I have probably understood.
>>> The trick is to use a real vector and to memorize also the rank.
>>>
>>> Have I understood correctly?
>>> thanks
>>>
>>> Diego
>>>
>>>
>>> On 10 August 2018 at 17:19, Diego Avesani <diego.aves...@gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Deal all,
>>>> I do not understand how MPI_MINLOC works. it seem locate the maximum in
>>>> a vector and not the CPU to which the valur belongs to.
>>>>
>>>> @ray: and if two has the same value?
>>>>
>>>> thanks
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Diego
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 10 August 2018 at 17:03, Ray Sheppard <rshep...@iu.edu> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> As a dumb scientist, I would just bcast the value I get back to the
>>>>> group and ask whoever owns it to kindly reply back with its rank.
>>>>>      Ray
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On 8/10/2018 10:49 AM, Reuti wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Am 10.08.2018 um 16:39 schrieb Diego Avesani <diego.aves...@gmail.com
>>>>>>> >:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Dear all,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I have a problem:
>>>>>>> In my parallel program each CPU compute a value, let's say eff.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> First of all, I would like to know the maximum value. This for me is
>>>>>>> quite simple,
>>>>>>> I apply the following:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> CALL MPI_ALLREDUCE(eff, effmaxWorld, 1, MPI_DOUBLE_PRECISION,
>>>>>>> MPI_MAX, MPI_MASTER_COMM, MPIworld%iErr)
>>>>>>>
>>>>>> Would MPI_MAXLOC be sufficient?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> -- Reuti
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> However, I would like also to know to which CPU that value belongs.
>>>>>>> Is it possible?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I have set-up a strange procedure but it works only when all the
>>>>>>> CPUs has different values but fails when two of then has the same eff 
>>>>>>> value.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Is there any intrinsic MPI procedure?
>>>>>>> in anternative,
>>>>>>> do you have some idea?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> really, really thanks.
>>>>>>> Diego
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Diego
>>>>>>>
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