- The idea of broadcast streams is to replace multiple master to
subProcs communications with a single MPI_Bcast.
if (Pstream::master())
{
OPBstream toAll(Pstream::masterNo());
toAll << data;
}
else
{
IPBstream fromMaster(Pstream::masterNo());
fromMaster >> data;
}
// vs.
if (Pstream::master())
{
for (const int proci : Pstream::subProcs())
{
OPstream os(Pstream::commsTypes::scheduled, proci);
os << data;
}
}
else
{
IPstream is(Pstream::commsTypes::scheduled, Pstream::masterNo());
is >> data;
}
Can simply use UPstream::broadcast() directly for contiguous data
with known lengths.
Based on ideas from T.Aoyagi(RIST), A.Azami(RIST)