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<H1 id="MPI_Ibarrier">MPI_Ibarrier</H1>
Notifies the process that it has reached the barrier and returns immediately
<H2>Synopsis</H2>
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int MPI_Ibarrier(MPI_Comm comm, MPI_Request * request)
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<H2>Input Parameters</H2>
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<DT><B>comm </B> <DD> communicator (handle)
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<H2>Output Parameters</H2>
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<DT><B>request </B> <DD> communication request (handle)
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<H2>Notes</H2>
MPI_Ibarrier is a nonblocking version of MPI_barrier. By calling MPI_Ibarrier,
a process notifies that it has reached the barrier. The call returns
immediately, independent of whether other processes have called MPI_Ibarrier.
The usual barrier semantics are enforced at the corresponding completion
operation (test or wait), which in the intra-communicator case will complete
only after all other processes in the communicator have called MPI_Ibarrier. In
the intercommunicator case, it will complete when all processes in the remote
group have called MPI_Ibarrier.
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<H2>Thread and Interrupt Safety</H2>
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This routine is thread-safe. This means that this routine may be
safely used by multiple threads without the need for any user-provided
thread locks. However, the routine is not interrupt safe. Typically,
this is due to the use of memory allocation routines such as <tt>malloc
</tt>or other non-MPICH runtime routines that are themselves not interrupt-safe.
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<H2>Notes for Fortran</H2>
All MPI routines in Fortran (except for <tt>MPI_WTIME</tt> and <tt>MPI_WTICK</tt>) have
an additional argument <tt>ierr</tt> at the end of the argument list. <tt>ierr
</tt>is an integer and has the same meaning as the return value of the routine
in C. In Fortran, MPI routines are subroutines, and are invoked with the
<tt>call</tt> statement.
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All MPI objects (e.g., <tt>MPI_Datatype</tt>, <tt>MPI_Comm</tt>) are of type <tt>INTEGER
</tt>in Fortran.
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<H2>Errors</H2>
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All MPI routines (except <tt>MPI_Wtime</tt> and <tt>MPI_Wtick</tt>) return an error value;
C routines as the value of the function and Fortran routines in the last
argument. Before the value is returned, the current MPI error handler is
called. By default, this error handler aborts the MPI job. The error handler
may be changed with <tt>MPI_Comm_set_errhandler</tt> (for communicators),
<tt>MPI_File_set_errhandler</tt> (for files), and <tt>MPI_Win_set_errhandler</tt> (for
RMA windows). The MPI-1 routine <tt>MPI_Errhandler_set</tt> may be used but
its use is deprecated. The predefined error handler
<tt>MPI_ERRORS_RETURN</tt> may be used to cause error values to be returned.
Note that MPI does <em>not</em> guarentee that an MPI program can continue past
an error; however, MPI implementations will attempt to continue whenever
possible.
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