One of the most important features among those provided by MPI is the point-to-point communication, which is a mechanism that enables data transmission between two processes: a process receiver, and process sender.
The Python module mpi4py
enables point-to-point communication via two functions:
Comm.Send(data, process_destination)
: This sends data to the destination process identified by its rank in the communicator groupComm.Recv(process_source)
: This receives data from the source process, which is also identified by its rank in the communicator group
The Comm
parameter, which stands for communicator, defines the group of processes, that may communicate through message passing:
comm = MPI.COMM_WORLD