MPI_Intercomm_create
Creates an intercommuncator from two intracommunicators 
Synopsis
#include "mpi.h"
int MPI_Intercomm_create ( local_comm, local_leader, peer_comm, 
                           remote_leader, tag, comm_out )
MPI_Comm  local_comm;
int       local_leader;
MPI_Comm  peer_comm;
int       remote_leader;
int       tag;
MPI_Comm *comm_out;
Input Paramters
|  | local_comm | Local (intra)communicator 
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|  | local_leader | Rank in local_comm of leader (often 0) 
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|  | peer_comm | Remote communicator 
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|  | remote_leader | Rank in peer_comm of remote leader (often 0) 
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|  | tag | Message tag to use in constructing intercommunicator; if multiple
MPI_Intercomm_creates are being made, they should use different tags (more
precisely, ensure that the local and remote leaders are using different
tags for each MPI_intercomm_create). 
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Output Parameter
- comm_out  
-  Created intercommunicator
Notes
The MPI 1.1 Standard contains two mutually exclusive comments on 
theinput intracommunicators.  One says that their repective groups must 
bedisjoint; the other that the leaders can be the same process.  
Aftersome discussion by the MPI Forum, it has been decided that the groups 
mustbe disjoint.  Note that the reason given for this in the standard 
isnot the reason for this choice; rather, the other operations 
onintercommunicators (like MPI_Intercomm_merge) do not make sense if 
thegroups are not disjoint.
Notes for Fortran
All MPI routines in Fortran (except for MPI_WTIME and MPI_WTICK) 
havean additional argument ierr at the end of the argument list.  
ierris an integer and has the same meaning as the return value of the 
routinein C.  In Fortran, MPI routines are subroutines, and are invoked with 
thecall statement.
All MPI objects (e.g., MPI_Datatype, MPI_Comm) are of type 
INTEGERin Fortran.
Algorithm
- 1) Allocate a send context, an inter 
-  coll context, and an intra-coll context
- 2) Send "send_context" and lrank_to_grank list from local comm group  
-  if I'm the local_leader.
- 3) If I'm the local leader, then wait on the posted sends and receives 
-  to complete.  Post the receive for the remote group information and
wait for it to complete.
- 4) Broadcast information received from the remote leader.   
-  . 5) Create the inter_communicator from the information we now have.
- An inter 
-  communicator ends up with three levels of communicators. 
The inter-communicator returned to the user, a "collective" 
inter-communicator that can be used for safe communications between
local & remote groups, and a collective intra-communicator that can 
be used to allocate new contexts during the merge and dup operations.
For the resulting inter-communicator, 
comm_out
       comm_out                       = inter-communicator
       comm_out->comm_coll            = "collective" inter-communicator
       comm_out->comm_coll->comm_coll = safe collective intra-communicator
Errors
All MPI routines (except MPI_Wtime and MPI_Wtick) return an error value;
C routines as the value of the function and Fortran routines in the 
lastargument.  Before the value is returned, the current MPI error handler 
iscalled.  By default, this error handler aborts the MPI job.  The error 
handlermay be changed with MPI_Errhandler_set; the predefined error 
handlerMPI_ERRORS_RETURN may be used to cause error values to be returned.
Note that MPI does not guarentee that an MPI program can continue 
pastan error.
- MPI_SUCCESS  
-  No error; MPI routine completed successfully.
- MPI_ERR_COMM  
-  Invalid communicator.  A common error is to use a null
communicator in a call (not even allowed in MPI_Comm_rank).
- MPI_ERR_TAG  
-  Invalid tag argument.  Tags must be non-negative; tags
in a receive (MPI_Recv, MPI_Irecv, MPI_Sendrecv, etc.) may
also be MPI_ANY_TAG.  The largest tag value is available through the 
the attribute MPI_TAG_UB.
- MPI_ERR_INTERN  
-  This error is returned when some part of the MPICH 
implementation is unable to acquire memory.  
- MPI_ERR_RANK  
-  Invalid source or destination rank.  Ranks must be between
zero and the size of the communicator minus one; ranks in a receive
(MPI_Recv, MPI_Irecv, MPI_Sendrecv, etc.) may also be MPI_ANY_SOURCE.
See Also
 MPI_Intercomm_merge, MPI_Comm_free, MPI_Comm_remote_group, 
MPI_Comm_remote_sizeLocation:ic_create.c