DUNE PDELab (2.8)
This recipe explains two types of communication available in GridView: neighbourwise communication designed for domain decomposition methods, and CollectiveCommunication.
Parallel solvers in DUNE already use the communication, so it is often possible to run parallel models without communicating explicitly.
For complete communication preview check section 4 in tutorial06.
Neighbourwise communication
This type of communication is designed to communicate shared degrees of freedom between domains. The communication happens only between neighbouring domains, and only at specified parts they have in common.
The communicate function is accessible from GridView object
To tell the method what data to communicate, we provide data handle (dh) encapsulating the data vector,
and InterfaceType describing which entities are sent and received.
InteriorBorder_InteriorBorder_Interface | send/receive interior and border entities |
InteriorBorder_All_Interface | send interior and border, receive all entities |
Overlap_OverlapFront_Interface | send overlap, receive overlap and front entities |
Overlap_All_Interface | send overlap, receive all entities |
All_All_Interface | send all and receive all entities |
Collective communication
This type of communication shares data between all ranks. Offers many MPI methods, for example
Method name | Description |
---|---|
\lstinline rank | obtain number (rank) of this process |
\lstinline size | obtain number of processes |
\lstinline barrier | wait until all process arrived at the barrier |
\lstinline min | global min of local values |
\lstinline max | global max of local values |
\lstinline sum | global sum of local values |
\lstinline allreduce | compute something over all processes for each component of an array and return result in every process |
\lstinline broadcast | broadcast from one process to all other processes |
\lstinline scatter | scatter individual data from root process to all other tasks |
\lstinline gather, allgather | gather data on root process (and distribute it to all other tasks) |
The communication object is a part of the GridView
Most methods take a constant reference and return that type. We need to use a variable as an argument, and not forget to store the result.
Full example code: recipe-communication.cc