On Mon, 12 May 2003, Rohan Inamdar wrote:
> If my parent group contains only one process and I spawn a single process
> using MPI_Comm_spawn(). How can i determine how much time did spawning take.
>
> If call to MPI_Comm_spawn in above case returns, does it guarantee that
> the process has been spawned and started on the destination machine.
In LAM/MPI, yes.
> Documentation only says that 'MPI_Comm_spawn' is collective over parent
> group.
In LAM, when MPI_Comm_spawn returns, the parent communicator and the child
processes have fully synchronized with each other. The children processes
will exit MPI_Init a short time later.
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