[mpich-discuss] Question on MPI_Type_create_struct

[Rob Latham]

On 10/01/2015 10:40 AM, Dorier, Matthieu wrote:
> Ok thanks Rajeev.
>
> I came up with this problem when trying to read multiple blocks of a 3d array in a file, with overlapping blocks. I was creating a set of MPI_Datatypes using the MPI_Type_create_subarray, and combining these types using MPI_Type_create_struct, passing the result to MPI_File_set_view.
>
> If you have any suggestion on how to (easily) use collective I/O in a context where each process has a set of blocks to load from a big 3d array (blocks can overlap within and across processes, due to ghost zones), I'm all listening.
>

this case is uncommon, since it's unusual to store the ghost cells in 
the file.   The ghost cells are duplicated data, so for a lot of 
applications (like the FLASH plotfile and checkpoint formats) the ghost 
cells are omitted when writing.

==rob

> Thanks,
>
> Matthieu
> ________________________________________
> From: Thakur, Rajeev [thakur at mcs.anl.gov]
> Sent: Thursday, October 01, 2015 10:34 AM
> To: discuss at mpich.org
> Subject: Re: [mpich-discuss] Question on MPI_Type_create_struct
>
> No, the file offsets represented by the file view must be "monotonically nondecreasing” (3.1, 492:5-6). You can do the permutation instead in the datatype describing memory buffer in the read call. No restrictions on that datatype.
>
> Rajeev
>
>
>> On Oct 1, 2015, at 10:10 AM, Dorier, Matthieu <mdorier at anl.gov> wrote:
>>
>> (I meant "ACBD" in the first case, not "ACDB")
>>
>> From: Dorier, Matthieu [mdorier at anl.gov]
>> Sent: Thursday, October 01, 2015 10:03 AM
>> To: discuss at mpich.org
>> Subject: [mpich-discuss] Question on MPI_Type_create_struct
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Suppose I have a file containing "ABCD", I build a type that would let me read "AC" and another type allowing me to read "BD". Can I then create a struct type using MPI_Type_create_struct combining the 2 types, and use it in an MPI_File_set_view such that if I then read 4 bytes on the file, I get "ACDB" in my buffer?
>>
>> If so, another more complicated scenario: say my first type would let me read "ACD" from the file and the second type would allow me to read "BC", can I then build a struct type using those two types, use it in an MPI_File_set_view to get "ACDBC" if I read 5 bytes?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Matthieu
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