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MPICOMMGETPARENT MPI Get Parent Communicator

Usage

This routine returns the communicator for the group that spawned the current process. Calling this routine for a process that was not spawned using mpicommspawn will cause an error. The general syntax for its use is

  comm = mpicommgetparent



Samit K. Basu 2005-03-16