reduce-method: A Rank Receive a Reduction of Objects from Every Rank

Description

This method lets a rank receive a reduction of objects from every rank in the same communicator based on a given operation. The default return is an object as the input.

Usage

reduce(x, x.buffer = NULL, op = .pbd_env$SPMD.CT$op,
       rank.dest = .pbd_env$SPMD.CT$rank.source,
       comm = .pbd_env$SPMD.CT$comm)

Value

The reduced object of the same type as x is returned by default.

Arguments

x: an object to be gathered from all ranks.
x.buffer: a buffer to hold the return object which probably has x with the same type of x.
op: a reduction operation applied on combine all x.
rank.dest: a rank of destination where all x reduce to.
comm: a communicator number.

Author

Wei-Chen Chen wccsnow@gmail.com, George Ostrouchov, Drew Schmidt, Pragneshkumar Patel, and Hao Yu.

Details

By default, the object is reduced to .pbd_env$SPMD.CT$rank.source, i.e. rank 0L.

All x on all ranks are likely presumed to have the same size and type.

x.buffer can be NULL or unspecified. If specified, the type should be either integer or double specified correctly according to the type of x.

See methods{"reduce"} for S4 dispatch cases and the source code for further details.

References

Programming with Big Data in R Website: https://pbdr.org/

Examples

Run this code


### Save code in a file "demo.r" and run with 2 processors by
### SHELL> mpiexec -np 2 Rscript demo.r

spmd.code <- "
### Initial.
suppressMessages(library(pbdMPI, quietly = TRUE))
init()
.comm.size <- comm.size()
.comm.rank <- comm.rank()

### Examples.
N <- 5
x <- (1:N) + N * .comm.rank
y <- reduce(matrix(x, nrow = 1), op = \"sum\")
comm.print(y)

y <- reduce(x, double(N), op = \"prod\")
comm.print(y)

x <- as.logical(round(runif(N)))
y <- reduce(x, logical(N), op = \"land\")
comm.print(y)

### Finish.
finalize()
"
pbdMPI::execmpi(spmd.code = spmd.code, nranks = 2L)

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