parallel netcdf - first experiences

[Rob Ross]

I think that Rajeev has identified the problem :).

Rob

On Mon, 28 Jul 2003, Rajeev Thakur wrote:

> > > When trying to create the test cases I recognized that
> > mpinetcdf.c tries
> > > to call  MPI_Type_create_vector which I guess is not part of the MPI2
> > > standard. Are there any plans to to add this function to the MPI2 in
> > > future? I also could not find this function in the mpich-1.2.5 release.
> > > Comments are welcome.
> >
> > I'm going to defer to someone more familiar with the differnce between
> > MPI-1 and MPI-2.. We *should* be using the MPI_VERSION macro to call the
> > right type function, like this:
> >
> > #if (MPI_VERSION < 2)
> >             MPI_Type_vector(subcount[0], varp->xsz, ncp->recsize,
> >                             MPI_BYTE, &filetype);
> > #else
> >             MPI_Type_create_vector(subcount[0], varp->xsz, ncp->recsize,
> >                                     MPI_BYTE, &filetype);
> > #endif
> 
> There isn't a function called MPI_Type_create_vector in MPI. There is a
> type_create_hvector and a type_vector.
> 
> Rajeev
> 
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