.\"Copyright 2006-2008 Sun Microsystems, Inc.
.\" Copyright (c) 1996 Thinking Machines Corporation
.TH MPI_Comm_create 3 "Dec 08, 2009" "1.4" "Open MPI"
.SH NAME
\fBMPI_Comm_create\fP \- Creates a new communicator.

.SH SYNTAX
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.SH C Syntax
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#include <mpi.h>
int MPI_Comm_create(MPI_Comm \fIcomm\fP, MPI_Group\fI group\fP, MPI_Comm\fI *newcomm\fP)

.SH Fortran Syntax
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INCLUDE 'mpif.h'
MPI_COMM_CREATE(\fICOMM, GROUP, NEWCOMM, IERROR\fP)
	INTEGER	\fICOMM, GROUP, NEW, IERROR\fP

.SH C++ Syntax
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#include <mpi.h>
MPI::Intercomm MPI::Intercomm::Create(const Group& \fIgroup\fP) const

MPI::Intracomm MPI::Intracomm::Create(const Group& \fIgroup\fP) const

.SH INPUT PARAMETER
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.TP 1i
comm
Communicator (handle).
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group
Group, which is a subset of the group of comm (handle).

.SH OUTPUT PARAMETERS
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.TP 1i
newcomm
New communicator (handle).
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.TP 1i
IERROR
Fortran only: Error status (integer). 

.SH DESCRIPTION
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This function creates a new communicator newcomm with communication group
defined by group and a new context. The function sets \fInewcomm\fR to a new communicator that spans all the processes that are in the group.   It sets \fInewcomm\fR to MPI_COMM_NULL for processes that are not in the group.   The call is erroneous if not all group arguments have the same value, or if group is not a subset of the group associated with comm. Note that the call must be executed by all processes in comm, even if they do not belong to the new group. 
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.SH NOTES
MPI_Comm_create provides a means of making a subset of processes for the purpose of separate MIMD computation, with separate communication space. \fInewcomm\fR, which is created by MPI_Comm_create, can be used in subsequent calls to MPI_Comm_create (or other communicator constructors) to further subdivide a computation into parallel sub-computations. A more general service is provided by MPI_Comm_split. 

.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.
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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
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MPI_Comm_split
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MPI_Intercomm_create