Getting Started

Download CS365_Lab01.zip to your cluster head node account. Unzip it.

You will make changes to the file hello_mpi.c.

Your Task

Complete the program so that it computes the sum of all integers from 1 to n in parallel, where n is an integer value entered by the user. Each parallel process of the program should use its rank to choose which range of integers to sum.

Suggested approach:

  1. The process with rank 0 should read the integer value from the user and send it to all of the other processes, (All processes other than rank 0 should start by receiving the integer value from the process with rank 0.)
  2. Each process should sum the integers in a non-overalapping range, based on its rank. (I.e., given p processes, the process with rank 0 should sum the first n / p integers.)
  3. Once the local sum has been computed, each process other than the one with rank 0 should send its local sum to the process with rank 0.
  4. The process with rank 0 should add its local sum to the local sums computed by the other nodes, and print the global sum.

Running the program

Use the included runpar script to run the program. It takes a single command line argument, the number of parallel processes to create. E.g.:

./runpar 10

To run the program with 10 processes.