.\" -*- nroff -*- .\" Copyright 2010 Cisco Systems, Inc. All rights reserved. .\" Copyright 2006-2008 Sun Microsystems, Inc. .\" Copyright (c) 1996 Thinking Machines Corporation .\" $COPYRIGHT$ .TH MPI_Comm_rank 3 "Dec 18, 2020" "4.1.0" "Open MPI" .SH NAME \fBMPI_Comm_rank\fP \- Determines the rank of the calling process in the communicator. .SH SYNTAX .ft R .SH C Syntax .nf #include int MPI_Comm_rank(MPI_Comm \fIcomm\fP, int\fI *rank\fP) .fi .SH Fortran Syntax .nf USE MPI ! or the older form: INCLUDE 'mpif.h' MPI_COMM_RANK(\fICOMM, RANK, IERROR\fP) INTEGER \fICOMM, RANK, IERROR\fP .fi .SH Fortran 2008 Syntax .nf USE mpi_f08 MPI_Comm_rank(\fIcomm\fP, \fIrank\fP, \fIierror\fP) TYPE(MPI_Comm), INTENT(IN) :: \fIcomm\fP INTEGER, INTENT(OUT) :: \fIrank\fP INTEGER, OPTIONAL, INTENT(OUT) :: \fIierror\fP .fi .SH C++ Syntax .nf #include int Comm::Get_rank() const .fi .SH INPUT PARAMETERS .ft R .TP 1i comm Communicator (handle). .SH OUTPUT PARAMETERS .ft R .TP 1i rank Rank of the calling process in group of comm (integer). .ft R .TP 1i IERROR Fortran only: Error status (integer). .SH DESCRIPTION .ft R This function gives the rank of the process in the particular communicator's group. It is equivalent to accessing the communicator's group with MPI_Comm_group, computing the rank using MPI_Group_rank, and then freeing the temporary group via MPI_Group_free. .sp Many programs will be written with the master-slave model, where one process (such as the rank-zero process) will play a supervisory role, and the other processes will serve as compute nodes. In this framework, MPI_Comm_size and MPI_Comm_rank are useful for determining the roles of the various processes of a communicator. .SH ERRORS Almost all MPI routines return an error value; C routines as the value of the function and Fortran routines in the last argument. C++ functions do not return errors. If the default error handler is set to MPI::ERRORS_THROW_EXCEPTIONS, then on error the C++ exception mechanism will be used to throw an MPI::Exception object. .sp Before the error value is returned, the current MPI error handler is called. By default, this error handler aborts the MPI job, except for I/O function errors. The error handler may be changed with MPI_Comm_set_errhandler; the predefined error handler MPI_ERRORS_RETURN may be used to cause error values to be returned. Note that MPI does not guarantee that an MPI program can continue past an error. .SH SEE ALSO .ft R .sp .nf MPI_Comm_group MPI_Comm_size MPI_Comm_compare