[mpiwg-coll] Error/gap in MPI_NEIGHBOR_ALLTOALL/ALLGATHER

[Rolf Rabenseifner]

Dear MPI collective WG,

   you may try to resolve the problem with a maybe wrong 
   MPI specification for MPI_NEIGHBOR_ALLTOALL/ALLGATHER

Dear MPI Forum member,

   you may own/use an MPI implementation that implements
   MPI_NEIGHBOR_ALLTOALL/ALLGATHER
   with race conditions if #nprocs in one dimension is
   only 1 or 2 and periodic==true

The problem was reported as a bug of the OpenMPI library 
by Simone Chiochetti from DICAM at the University of Trento, 
but seems to be a bug in the MPI specification,
or at least an advice to implementors is missing.

I produced a set of animated slides.
Please look at them in presentation mode with animation.

Have fun with a problem that clearly prevents the use
of MPI_NEIGHBOR_... routines with cyclic boundary condition
if one wants to verify that mpirun -np 1 is doing
the same as the sequential code.

Best regards
Rolf

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