Errata for `Using MPI'

Note: Some of these were corrected in the second printing of Using MPI.

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The use of MPI_Status stat may cause problems if this is used as a global variable because of the Unix system call stat. We recommend replacing stat with status.

Thanks to wcs@nas.nasa.gov (Bill Saphir).

p 15

in the MPI_Recv call, ``dest'' should be identified as ``source''

Thanks to David Levine <levine@mcs.anl.gov>.

p 23

Variables ``sizetype and sumtype'' are not used.

p 25

pi -np 4 should now be mpirun -np 4 pi

p 35

The text in the first line of this page, ``in the vector b'', should be ``in the vector c''. Similiarly on page 34.
Thanks to Bryan Putnam <bfp@bfp.cc.purdue.edu>.

p 50

There is a missing ; after sscanf.

Thanks to Stacey Smith <smith@mcs.anl.gov>.

p 59

The second sentence reads ``programs for the these algorithms'' but should read ``programs for these algorithms''.

Thanks to Bryan Putnam <bfp@bfp.cc.purdue.edu>.

p 66

``perforance'' should be ``performance''.

Thanks to Bryan Putnam <bfp@bfp.cc.purdue.edu>.

p 66

Mpi_Cart_create should be MPI_Cart_create.

Thanks to Bryan Putnam <bfp@bfp.cc.purdue.edu>.

p 84

thirtytwo needs a space

p 88

The stridetype in the example of MPI_TYPE_VECTOR is the same item as stride in the example on page 90. One of the two should be changed to match.

Thanks to carriero-nicholas@CS.YALE.EDU (Nicholas Carriero).

p 88

The example of MPI_Type_vector is formally correct, but the expressions for the count and stride do not match the example in section 4.7. The code should be

call MPI_TYPE-VECTOR( ey - sy + 1, 1, ex - sx + 3, 
          MPI_DOUBLE_PRECISION, stride, ierr ) 
call MPI_Type_COMMIT( stride, ierr ) 

The paragraph following this code should have the corresponding values changed.

p 90

Figure 4.20 should be replaced with

       subroutine exchng2( a, sx, ex, sy, ey,  
     $                     comm2d, stride,  
     $                     nbrleft, nbrright, nbrtop, nbrbottom  ) 
       include "mpif.h" 
       integer sx, ex, sy, ey, stride 
       double precision a(sx-1:ex+1, sy-1:ey+1) 
       integer nbrleft, nbrright, nbrtop, nbrbottom, comm2d 
       integer status(MPI_STATUS_SIZE), ierr, nx 
c 
       nx = ex - sx + 1 
c  These are just like the 1-d versions, except for less data 
        call MPI_SENDRECV( a(sx,ey),  nx, MPI_DOUBLE_PRECISION,  
     $                    nbrtop, 0, 
     $                    a(sx,sy-1), nx, MPI_DOUBLE_PRECISION,  
     $                    nbrbottom, 0, comm2d, status, ierr ) 
        call MPI_SENDRECV( a(sx,sy),  nx, MPI_DOUBLE_PRECISION, 
     $                    nbrbottom, 1, 
     $                    a(sx,ey+1), nx, MPI_DOUBLE_PRECISION,  
     $                    nbrtop, 1, comm2d, status, ierr ) 
c 
c This uses the "strided" datatype 
        call MPI_SENDRECV( a(ex,sy),  1, stride, nbrright,  0, 
     $                     a(sx-1,sy), 1, stride, nbrleft,  0,  
     $                     comm2d, status, ierr ) 
        call MPI_SENDRECV( a(sx,sy),  1, stride, nbrleft,   1, 
     $                     a(ex+1,sy), 1, stride, nbrright, 1,  
     $                     comm2d, status, ierr ) 
        return 
        end 

(The change is mostly to use a single array a and to make the sense of left and right etc match the (x,y) orientation of the array.

p 99

(This is a clarification, not an errata). Note that table 5.2 does not include the optional data type of MPI_DOUBLE_COMPLEX for Fortran, which is listed in A.2 of the MPI standard but not in section 3.2.2 of the MPI standard. Note that this also applies to the list of data types for collective (reduction/scan) operations, in section 4.9.2 of the MPI standard.

p 104-6

The bindings for MPI_Allgatherv are incorrect in Tables 5.5 and 5.6. They should be

int MPI_Allgatherv(void* sendbuf, int sendcount, MPI_Datatype sendtype,  
                   void* recvbuf, int *recvcounts, int *displs,  
                   MPI_Datatype recvtype, MPI_Comm comm); 

and

MPI_ALLGATHERV(sendbuf, sendcount, sendtype,  
               recvbuf, recvcounts, displs,  
               recvtype, comm) 
<type> sendbuf(*), recvbuf(*) 
integer sendcount, sendtype, recvcount(*), displs(*), recvtype,  
        comm 
 

Thanks to rvdg@cs.utexas.edu (Robert van de Geijn).

p 139ff

In the Ibcast examples, the copy and delete callback functions are declared as void but should return an integer. Add the code

     return(MPI_SUCCESS); 

to the end of these routines

Thanks to Peter Junglas <Junglas@tu-harburg.d400.de>.

p 140

Need to mention that MPI_COMM_SPLIT (and all other communicator creation routines) must be called collectively. (It is possible that they may be implemented in such a way as to avoid the need for any communication, but everyone in the ``old'' communicator must call these routines).

Thanks to carriero-nicholas@CS.YALE.EDU (Nicholas Carriero).

p 140

In table 6.3 at the bottom of p.140, the type of variable ``key'' is missing. The type is properly given in Appendix A.1 (p. 257), and the information for the Fortran bindings for this function seems to be correct.

Thanks to puri@cs.msstate.edu (Puri Bangalore).

p 143

The lines preceding MPI_Cart_sub() are transposed. That is, the remaining dimensions are eliminated in the opposite order than they should be. Here is how the correct fragment looks:

  /* Use cartesian sub-topology mechanism to get row/col comms: */ 
  remain_dims[0] = FALSE; remain_dims[1] = TRUE; 
  MPI_Cart_sub(comm_2d, remain_dims, &row); 
  remain_dims[0] = TRUE; remain_dims[1] = FALSE; 
  MPI_Cart_sub(comm_2d, remain_dims, &col); 

The examples have been updated to reflect this correction as well.

Thanks to schneid@tc.cornell.edu (David J. Schneider).

p 150

Figure 6.16: The declaration of ddot_stride doesn't give a type for *y, so in ANSI C it will be int, not LA_Dvector.

p 159

The routines MPE_Counter_nxtval contains a superfluous calls to MPI_Comm_rank and declaration of myid.

Thanks to carriero-nicholas@CS.YALE.EDU (Nicholas Carriero).

p 159

This routine has a test for smaller_comm after using *smaller_comm in an MPI_Barrier. The MPI_Barrier call should be within the test (actually the test on the comparison against MPI_UNEQUAL as well).

Thanks to carriero-nicholas@CS.YALE.EDU (Nicholas Carriero).

p 163

There is a missing ) in the second paragraph of section 7.2. It should read

The ability to compute FCI wave functions thus confers the ability to adjudicate among all approximate methods (e.g., SCF, many-body methods, and truncated CI*) and, by comparison with experiment, permits assessment of deficiencies in the one-particle basis set and the Hamiltonian approximations.

Thanks to carriero-nicholas@CS.YALE.EDU (Nicholas Carriero).

p 166

Second line from bottom; there is an extraneous comma after MPI_Op_create.

p 166

Second box, the calling sequence of User_function is not int ... but should be void ... Also see box on next page for Fortran again a suspicious int.

Thanks to Barry Smith.

p 167

Table 7.6 has typesetting error.

p 167

Line 2: ``intercommunicators'' and ``intracommunicators'' should be italicized.

p 167

In the second paragraph in ``Other Collective Operations'', in the discussion of MPI_Reduce_scatter, the word ``combines'' should be ``combine''.

p 168

Line 18: operation(s).

p 168

Line 14 ``When receiving...'' is wrong or, at best, misleading.

p 176

Figure 7.13, the MPI_Pcontrol declaration is missing const and has a semi-colon at the end.

p 177

Table 7.10: MPI_PCONTROL is missing ierr return value.

p 180

At bottom of page MPI_Get_errhandler should be MPI_Errhandler_get and MPI_Set_errhandler should be MPI_Errhandler_set.

Thanks to Barry Smith <bsmith@mcs.anl.gov>.

Chapter 9

Chapter 9 often recommends using MPI_Send as a replacement for other system's send routines. However, because MPI_Send may block when sending messages when no matching receive is posted (see Chapter 4 for a full discussion), some applications in some systems may need to use MPI_Bsend instead. This is particularly true for P4, PVM and Intel NX. The necessary MPI_Buffer_attach call can be added to the initialization (i.e., immediately after the MPI_Init).

Thanks to carriero-nicholas@CS.YALE.EDU (Nicholas Carriero).

p 246

Section 10.5 should be amended to reflect the MPI2 process.

p 258

The prototype for MPI_Get_processor_name is inconsistent with the MPI standard (p. 217). The C and FORTRAN bindings in the standard appear consistent, but the FORTRAN binding is inconsistent with the C binding in Using MPI. The binding should be

int MPI_Get_processor_name( char *name, int *resultlen ) 

Thanks to schneid@tc.cornell.edu (David J. Schneider).

p 263

The binding for MPI_Topo_test should be

int MPI_Topo_test( MPI_Comm comm, int *top_type ) 

p 268

``nt'' in front of ``MPI_Comm_split'' is extraneous.
Thanks to schneid@tc.cornell.edu (David J. Schneider).

p 275

The binding for MPI_Topo_test should be

MPI_Topo_test( comm, top_type, ierr ) 
integer comm, top_type, ierr 

p 280-282

The MPICH model implementation now recommends using the mpirun command instead of the system-specific information given in section B.2.

p 290

The MPI FAQ is now at http://www.erc.msstate.edu/mpi/mpi-faq.html

p 292

E.1.3, in the sentence ``If we want to send or...a(sx:ex,sy:ez,k)'', ez should be ey.

Thanks to David Levine <levine@mcs.anl.gov>.

This isn't really a correction, but if the example of sending parts of a(nx,ny,nz) sends the entire side (for example, sx=sy=sz=1 and ex=nx, ey=ny, and ez=nz), then the three forms can be simplified to

a(1:nx,1:ny,k): 
MPI_Type_contiguous(nx*ny,MPI_DOUBLE_PRECISION,newz,ierr) 
a(i,1:ny,1:nz): 
MPI_Type_vector(ny*nz,1,nx,MPI_DOUBLE_PRECISION,newx,ierr) 
a(1:nx,j,1:nz): 
MPI_Type_vector(nz,nx,nx*ny,MPI_DOUBLE_PRECISION,newy,ierr) 

Note in particular the form for newx; this exploits the fact that all of the elements of this plane are separated by nx elements. This is not true for the more general case, which leads to the use of hvector in the example.

A.2

The FORTRAN binding for MPI_TYPE_COMMIT has been omitted from Appendix A.2.

Thanks to schneid@tc.cornell.edu (David J. Schneider).