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\fI\%MPI_Start\fP — Initiates a communication using a persistent request
handle.
.SH SYNTAX
.SS C Syntax
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#include <mpi.h>

int MPI_Start(MPI_Request *request)
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USE MPI
! or the older form: INCLUDE \(aqmpif.h\(aq
MPI_START(REQUEST, IERROR)
     INTEGER REQUEST, IERROR
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USE mpi_f08
MPI_Start(request, ierror)
     TYPE(MPI_Request), INTENT(INOUT) :: request
     INTEGER, OPTIONAL, INTENT(OUT) :: ierror
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.SH INPUT PARAMETER
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\fBrequest\fP: Communication request (handle).
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.SH OUTPUT PARAMETER
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\fBierror\fP: Fortran only: Error status (integer).
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.SH DESCRIPTION
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A communication (send or receive) that uses a persistent request is
initiated by the function \fI\%MPI_Start\fP\&.
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The argument, request, is a handle returned by one of the persistent
communication\-request initialization functions (\fI\%MPI_Send_init\fP,
\fI\%MPI_Bsend_init\fP, \fI\%MPI_Ssend_init\fP, \fI\%MPI_Rsend_init\fP, MPI_Recv_init). The
associated request should be inactive and becomes active once the call
is made.
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If the request is for a send with ready mode, then a matching receive
should be posted before the call is made. From the time the call is made
until after the operation completes, the communication buffer should not
be accessed.
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The call is local, with semantics similar to the nonblocking
communication operations (see Section 3.7 in the \fI\%MPI Standard\fP,
“Nonblocking Communication.”) That is, a call to \fI\%MPI_Start\fP with a
request created by \fI\%MPI_Send_init\fP starts a communication in the same
manner as a call to \fI\%MPI_Isend\fP; a call to \fI\%MPI_Start\fP with a request
created by \fI\%MPI_Bsend_init\fP starts a communication in the same manner as a
call to \fI\%MPI_Ibsend\fP; and so on.
.SH ERRORS
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Almost all MPI routines return an error value; C routines as the return result
of the function and Fortran routines in the last argument.
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Before the error value is returned, the current MPI error handler associated
with the communication object (e.g., communicator, window, file) is called.
If no communication object is associated with the MPI call, then the call is
considered attached to MPI_COMM_SELF and will call the associated MPI error
handler. When MPI_COMM_SELF is not initialized (i.e., before
\fI\%MPI_Init\fP/\fI\%MPI_Init_thread\fP, after \fI\%MPI_Finalize\fP, or when using the Sessions
Model exclusively) the error raises the initial error handler. The initial
error handler can be changed by calling \fI\%MPI_Comm_set_errhandler\fP on
MPI_COMM_SELF when using the World model, or the mpi_initial_errhandler CLI
argument to mpiexec or info key to \fI\%MPI_Comm_spawn\fP/\fI\%MPI_Comm_spawn_multiple\fP\&.
If no other appropriate error handler has been set, then the MPI_ERRORS_RETURN
error handler is called for MPI I/O functions and the MPI_ERRORS_ABORT error
handler is called for all other MPI functions.
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Open MPI includes three predefined error handlers that can be used:
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\fBMPI_ERRORS_ARE_FATAL\fP
Causes the program to abort all connected MPI processes.
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\fBMPI_ERRORS_ABORT\fP
An error handler that can be invoked on a communicator,
window, file, or session. When called on a communicator, it
acts as if \fI\%MPI_Abort\fP was called on that communicator. If
called on a window or file, acts as if \fI\%MPI_Abort\fP was called
on a communicator containing the group of processes in the
corresponding window or file. If called on a session,
aborts only the local process.
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\fBMPI_ERRORS_RETURN\fP
Returns an error code to the application.
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MPI applications can also implement their own error handlers by calling:
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\fI\%MPI_Comm_create_errhandler\fP then \fI\%MPI_Comm_set_errhandler\fP
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\fI\%MPI_File_create_errhandler\fP then \fI\%MPI_File_set_errhandler\fP
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\fI\%MPI_Session_create_errhandler\fP then \fI\%MPI_Session_set_errhandler\fP or at \fI\%MPI_Session_init\fP
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\fI\%MPI_Win_create_errhandler\fP then \fI\%MPI_Win_set_errhandler\fP
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Note that MPI does not guarantee that an MPI program can continue past
an error.
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See the \fI\%MPI man page\fP for a full list of \fI\%MPI error codes\fP\&.
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See the Error Handling section of the MPI\-3.1 standard for
more information.
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\fBSEE ALSO:\fP
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\fI\%MPI_Bsend_init\fP
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\fI\%MPI_Rsend_init\fP
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\fI\%MPI_Send_init\fP
.IP \(bu 2
MPI_Sssend_init
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\fI\%MPI_Recv_init\fP
.IP \(bu 2
\fI\%MPI_Startall\fP
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.SH COPYRIGHT
2003-2024, The Open MPI Community
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