[petsc-users] Does PETSc have any broadcast function?

[Gryllida]

>On Wed, 1 Sep 2010 20:54:54 +0000, "Li, Zhisong (lizs)" <lizs at mail.uc.edu> wrote:
>>  Hi, Petsc Team,
>> 
>> I wonder if Petsc has any function like MPI_Bcast() which can
>> broadcast a value to all processes. If we directly add MPI functions
>> into the Petsc program, the MPI datatype may be incompatible with the
>> Petsc datatype. Does Petsc have any easy way to handle this?
>
>PETSc registers the types MPIU_SCALAR, MPIU_REAL, and MPIU_INT so you
>can use these to send PetscScalar, PetscReal, and PetscInt respectively
>using any MPI functions.
>
>Jed
>

What about MPI_DOUBLE?