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NAME

       MPI_Comm_set_name -  Set a name on a communicator

SYNOPSIS

       #include <mpi.h>
       int
       MPI_Comm_set_name(MPI_Comm comm, char *name)

INPUT PARAMETERS

       comm   - Communicator
       name   - Pointer to the name of communicator

NOTES

       This  function  associates  a  name  with  a communicator, which can be
       useful for debugging purposes.  The function MPI_Comm_get_name  can  be
       used  to retrieve name that was previously set with MPI_Comm_set_name .

       The MPI_COMM_WORLD , MPI_COMM_SELF , and  parent  communicator  (if  an
       application  was launched via MPI_Comm_spawn or MPI_Comm_spawn_multiple
       ) have the  predefined  names  MPI_COMM_WORLD  ,  MPI_COMM_SELF  ,  and
       MPI_COMM_PARENT  ,  respectively.   It  is legal to change any of these
       names with calls to MPI_Comm_set_name .

       Names passed in C must include the  null  terminator,  and  can  be  of
       maximum  length  MPI_MAX_OBJECT_NAME  (including  the null terminator).
       Names  passed  in  Fortran  can  also  have   a   maximum   length   of
       MPI_MAX_OBJECT_NAME .

       Setting  a  name  on  a communicator that already has a name associated
       with it replaces the old name.

ERRORS

       If an error occurs in an MPI function, the current MPI error handler is
       called  to  handle  it.   By default, this error handler aborts the MPI
       job.  The error handler may be changed with  MPI_Errhandler_set  ;  the
       predefined  error  handler MPI_ERRORS_RETURN may be used to cause error
       values to be returned (in C and Fortran; this  error  handler  is  less
       useful  in  with  the  C++  MPI bindings.  The predefined error handler
       MPI::ERRORS_THROW_EXCEPTIONS should be used in C++ if the  error  value
       needs  to  be recovered).  Note that MPI does not guarantee that an MPI
       program can continue past an error.

       All MPI routines (except MPI_Wtime and  MPI_Wtick  )  return  an  error
       value;  C routines as the value of the function and Fortran routines in
       the last argument.  The C++  bindings  for  MPI  do  not  return  error
       values;  instead,  error values are communicated by throwing exceptions
       of type MPI::Exception (but  not  by  default).   Exceptions  are  only
       thrown if the error value is not MPI::SUCCESS .

       Note  that  if  the MPI::ERRORS_RETURN handler is set in C++, while MPI
       functions will return upon an error, there will be no  way  to  recover
       what the actual error value was.
       MPI_SUCCESS
              - No error; MPI routine completed successfully.
       MPI_ERR_COMM
              -  Invalid  communicator.   A  common  error  is  to  use a null
              communicator in a call (not even allowed in MPI_Comm_rank ).
       MPI_ERR_ARG
              - Invalid  argument.   Some  argument  is  invalid  and  is  not
              identified  by a specific error class.  This is typically a NULL
              pointer or other such error.

SEE ALSO

       MPI_Comm_get_name,        MPI_Type_get_name,         MPI_Type_set_name,
       MPI_Win_get_name, MPI_Win_set_name

MORE INFORMATION

       For more information, please see the official MPI Forum web site, which
       contains the text  of  both  the  MPI-1  and  MPI-2  standards.   These
       documents contain detailed information about each MPI function (most of
       which is not duplicated in these man pages).

       http://www.mpi-forum.org/

LOCATION

       csetname.c