The MPITcl interpreter adds a command ensemble; mpi::mpi. See the reference material for full information about each subcommand. This has the following subcommands:
Returns the number of mpitcl program instances in the program.
Returns the rank of the program within the MPI_COMM_WORLD communicator.
Executes a command in process. The process is either specified by rank or others may be specified to execute the command in all other processes but the sender. all can be specified to execute the script in all processes including this one. No communication is done to execute the command in this process.
For rank 0 to execute a command sent to it by another rank, it must be running the notifier and be in the event loop (e.g. by vwait).
Sends data to another process. all and others can be used here as well to specify several receivers.
For all program instances to be able to receive data requires that they have established a data handler command (see handle). Additionally, for rank 0 to receive data, it must be running the notifier and be in the event loop (e.g. via vwait).
Specifies a script to handle data sent to the process via send. The sender's rank and the data are appended to the command prior to execution.
The notifier is a thread that runs in the rank 0 process. It's purpose is to monitor for MPI messages and queue them as events to the main thread's interpreter where they can be executed when the event loop is entered via, for example, vwait.
If compiled code wants to do message exchange it can be important to stop the notifier thread to prevent events from being queues that the main thread will be handling.
This command, which is only legal in rank 0 stops the notifier thread. This is done by sending a message with a special tag. The probe loop the notifier is executing, recognizesthis tag, absorbs the message and exits.
Starts the notifier if it is stopped. If the notifier is already running, this has undefined results.