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Broadcast

void Intracomm.Bcast(Object buffer, int offset, int count,
                     Datatype datatype, int root)
buf buffer array
offset initial offset in buffer
count number of items in buffer
datatype datatype of each item in buffer
dest rank of broadcast root



Broadcast a message from the process with rank root to all processes of the group. Java binding of the MPI operation MPI_BCAST.



Bryan Carpenter 2002-07-12