192. Starting Processes


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2.2 MPI applications may start new processes through an interface to an external process manager.

MPI_COMM_SPAWN starts MPI processes and establishes communication with them, returning an intercommunicator. MPI_COMM_SPAWN_MULTIPLE starts several different binaries (or the same binary with different arguments), placing them in the same MPI_COMM_WORLD and returning an intercommunicator.

MPI uses the existing group abstraction to represent processes. A process is identified by a (group, rank) pair.



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