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Python Parallel Programming Cookbook
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Python Parallel Programming Cookbook

by Giancarlo Zaccone
August 2015
Intermediate to advanced
286 pages
5h 42m
English
Packt Publishing
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The reduction operation

Similar to comm.gather, comm.reduce takes an array of input elements in each process and returns an array of output elements to the root process. The output elements contain the reduced result.

In mpi4py, we define the reduction operation through the following statement:

comm.Reduce(sendbuf, recvbuf, rank_of_root_process, op = type_of_reduction_operation)

We must note that the difference with the comm.gather statement resides in the op parameter, which is the operation that you wish to apply to your data, and the mpi4py module contains a set of reduction operations that can be used. Some of the reduction operations defined by MPI are:

  • MPI.MAX: This returns the maximum element
  • MPI.MIN: This returns the minimum element
  • MPI.SUM ...
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