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.TH "MPI_ISCATTERV" "3" "Sep 17, 2026" "" "Open MPI"
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MPI_Scatterv \%<#\:mpi-scatterv>, MPI_Iscatterv, MPI_Scatterv_init \%<#\:mpi-scatterv-init> \- Scatters a buffer
in parts to all tasks in a group.
.SH SYNTAX
.SS C Syntax
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.EX
#include <mpi.h>

int MPI_Scatterv(const void *sendbuf, const int sendcounts[], const int displs[],
     MPI_Datatype sendtype, void *recvbuf, int recvcount,
     MPI_Datatype recvtype, int root, MPI_Comm comm)

int MPI_Iscatterv(const void *sendbuf, const int sendcounts[], const int displs[],
     MPI_Datatype sendtype, void *recvbuf, int recvcount,
     MPI_Datatype recvtype, int root, MPI_Comm comm, MPI_Request *request)

int MPI_Scatterv_init(const void *sendbuf, const int sendcounts[], const int displs[],
     MPI_Datatype sendtype, void *recvbuf, int recvcount,
     MPI_Datatype recvtype, int root, MPI_Comm comm, MPI_Info info, MPI_Request *request)
.EE
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.SS Fortran Syntax
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.EX
USE MPI
! or the older form: INCLUDE \(aqmpif.h\(aq
MPI_SCATTERV(SENDBUF, SENDCOUNTS, DISPLS, SENDTYPE, RECVBUF,
             RECVCOUNT, RECVTYPE, ROOT, COMM, IERROR)
     <type>  SENDBUF(*), RECVBUF(*)
     INTEGER SENDCOUNTS(*), DISPLS(*), SENDTYPE
     INTEGER RECVCOUNT, RECVTYPE, ROOT, COMM, IERROR

MPI_ISCATTERV(SENDBUF, SENDCOUNTS, DISPLS, SENDTYPE, RECVBUF,
             RECVCOUNT, RECVTYPE, ROOT, COMM, REQUEST, IERROR)
     <type>  SENDBUF(*), RECVBUF(*)
     INTEGER SENDCOUNTS(*), DISPLS(*), SENDTYPE
     INTEGER RECVCOUNT, RECVTYPE, ROOT, COMM, REQUEST, IERROR

MPI_SCATTERV_INIT(SENDBUF, SENDCOUNTS, DISPLS, SENDTYPE, RECVBUF,
             RECVCOUNT, RECVTYPE, ROOT, COMM, INFO, REQUEST, IERROR)
     <type>  SENDBUF(*), RECVBUF(*)
     INTEGER SENDCOUNTS(*), DISPLS(*), SENDTYPE
     INTEGER RECVCOUNT, RECVTYPE, ROOT, COMM, INFO, REQUEST, IERROR
.EE
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.SS Fortran 2008 Syntax
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USE mpi_f08
MPI_Scatterv(sendbuf, sendcounts, displs, sendtype, recvbuf, recvcount,
             recvtype, root, comm, ierror)
     TYPE(*), DIMENSION(..), INTENT(IN) :: sendbuf
     TYPE(*), DIMENSION(..) :: recvbuf
     INTEGER, INTENT(IN) :: sendcounts(*), displs(*), recvcount, root
     TYPE(MPI_Datatype), INTENT(IN) :: sendtype, recvtype
     TYPE(MPI_Comm), INTENT(IN) :: comm
     INTEGER, OPTIONAL, INTENT(OUT) :: ierror

MPI_Iscatterv(sendbuf, sendcounts, displs, sendtype, recvbuf, recvcount,
             recvtype, root, comm, request, ierror)
     TYPE(*), DIMENSION(..), INTENT(IN), ASYNCHRONOUS :: sendbuf
     TYPE(*), DIMENSION(..), ASYNCHRONOUS :: recvbuf
     INTEGER, INTENT(IN), ASYNCHRONOUS :: sendcounts(*), displs(*)
     INTEGER, INTENT(IN) :: recvcount, root
     TYPE(MPI_Datatype), INTENT(IN) :: sendtype, recvtype
     TYPE(MPI_Comm), INTENT(IN) :: comm
     TYPE(MPI_Request), INTENT(OUT) :: request
     INTEGER, OPTIONAL, INTENT(OUT) :: ierror

MPI_scatterv_init(sendbuf, sendcounts, displs, sendtype, recvbuf, recvcount,
             recvtype, root, comm, info, request, ierror)
     TYPE(*), DIMENSION(..), INTENT(IN), ASYNCHRONOUS :: sendbuf
     TYPE(*), DIMENSION(..), ASYNCHRONOUS :: recvbuf
     INTEGER, INTENT(IN), ASYNCHRONOUS :: sendcounts(*), displs(*)
     INTEGER, INTENT(IN) :: recvcount, root
     TYPE(MPI_Datatype), INTENT(IN) :: sendtype, recvtype
     TYPE(MPI_Comm), INTENT(IN) :: comm
     TYPE(MPI_Info), INTENT(IN) :: info
     TYPE(MPI_Request), INTENT(OUT) :: request
     INTEGER, OPTIONAL, INTENT(OUT) :: ierror
.EE
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.SH INPUT PARAMETERS
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\fBsendbuf\fP: Address of send buffer (choice, significant only at root).
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\fBsendcounts\fP: Integer array (of length group size) specifying the number of elements to send to each processor.
.IP \(bu 2
\fBdispls\fP: Integer array (of length group size). Entry i specifies the displacement (relative to sendbuf) from which to take the outgoing data to process i.
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\fBsendtype\fP: Datatype of send buffer elements (handle).
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\fBrecvcount\fP: Number of elements in receive buffer (integer).
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\fBrecvtype\fP: Datatype of receive buffer elements (handle).
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\fBroot\fP: Rank of sending process (integer).
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\fBcomm\fP: Communicator (handle).
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\fBinfo\fP: Info (handle, persistent only).
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.SH OUTPUT PARAMETERS
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\fBrecvbuf\fP: Address of receive buffer (choice).
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\fBrequest\fP: Request (handle, non\-blocking only).
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\fBierror\fP: Fortran only: Error status (integer).
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.SH DESCRIPTION
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MPI_Scatterv \%<#\:mpi-scatterv> is the inverse operation to MPI_Gatherv \%<#\:mpi-gatherv>\&.
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MPI_Scatterv \%<#\:mpi-scatterv> extends the functionality of MPI_Scatter \%<#\:mpi-scatter> by allowing a
varying count of data to be sent to each process, since \fIsendcounts\fP is
now an array. It also allows more flexibility as to where the data is
taken from on the root, by providing the new argument, \fIdispls\fP\&.
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The outcome is as if the root executed \fIn\fP send operations,
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MPI_Send(sendbuf + displs[i] * extent(sendtype),
         sendcounts[i], sendtype, i, ...);

// and each process executed a receive,

MPI_Recv(recvbuf, recvcount, recvtype, root, ...)
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The send buffer is ignored for all nonroot processes.
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The type signature implied by \fIsendcount\fP[\fIi\fP], \fIsendtype\fP at the root
must be equal to the type signature implied by \fIrecvcount\fP, \fIrecvtype\fP
at process \fIi\fP (however, the type maps may be different). This implies
that the amount of data sent must be equal to the amount of data
received, pairwise between each process and the root. Distinct type maps
between sender and receiver are still allowed.
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All arguments to the function are significant on process \fIroot\fP, while
on other processes, only arguments \fIrecvbuf\fP, \fIrecvcount\fP, \fIrecvtype\fP,
\fIroot\fP, \fIcomm\fP are significant. The arguments \fIroot\fP and \fIcomm\fP must
have identical values on all processes.
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The specification of counts, types, and displacements should not cause
any location on the root to be read more than once.
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\fBExample 1:\fP The reverse of Example 5 in the MPI_Gatherv \%<#\:mpi-gatherv> manpage. We
have a varying stride between blocks at sending (root) side, at the
receiving side we receive 100 \- \fIi\fP elements into the \fIi\fPth column of
a 100 x 150 C array at process \fIi\fP\&.
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MPI_Comm comm;
int gsize,recvarray[100][150],*rptr;
int root, *sendbuf, myrank, bufsize, *stride;
MPI_Datatype rtype;
int i, *displs, *scounts, offset;
\&...
MPI_Comm_size( comm, &gsize);
MPI_Comm_rank( comm, &myrank );

stride = (int *)malloc(gsize*sizeof(int));
\&...
/* stride[i] for i = 0 to gsize\-1 is set somehow
 * sendbuf comes from elsewhere
 */
\&...
displs = (int *)malloc(gsize*sizeof(int));
scounts = (int *)malloc(gsize*sizeof(int));
offset = 0;
for (i=0; i<gsize; ++i) {
    displs[i] = offset;
    offset += stride[i];
    scounts[i] = 100 \- i;
}
/* Create datatype for the column we are receiving
 */
MPI_Type_vector( 100\-myrank, 1, 150, MPI_INT, &rtype);
MPI_Type_commit( &rtype );
rptr = &recvarray[0][myrank];
MPI_Scatterv(sendbuf, scounts, displs, MPI_INT,
             rptr, 1, rtype, root, comm);
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\fBExample 2:\fP The reverse of Example 1 in the MPI_Gather manpage. The
root process scatters sets of 100 ints to the other processes, but the
sets of 100 are stride ints apart in the sending buffer. Requires use of
MPI_Scatterv \%<#\:mpi-scatterv>, where \fIstride\fP >= 100.
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MPI_Comm comm;
int gsize,*sendbuf;
int root, rbuf[100], i, *displs, *scounts;

\&...

MPI_Comm_size(comm, &gsize);
sendbuf = (int *)malloc(gsize*stride*sizeof(int));
\&...
displs = (int *)malloc(gsize*sizeof(int));
scounts = (int *)malloc(gsize*sizeof(int));
for (i=0; i<gsize; ++i) {
   displs[i] = i*stride;
   scounts[i] = 100;
}
MPI_Scatterv(sendbuf, scounts, displs, MPI_INT,
             rbuf, 100, MPI_INT, root, comm);
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.SH USE OF IN-PLACE OPTION
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When the communicator is an intracommunicator, you can perform a scatter
operation in\-place (the output buffer is used as the input buffer). Use
the variable MPI_IN_PLACE as the value of the root process \fIrecvbuf\fP\&. In
this case, \fIrecvcount\fP and \fIrecvtype\fP are ignored, and the root process
sends no data to itself.
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Note that MPI_IN_PLACE is a special kind of value; it has the same
restrictions on its use as MPI_BOTTOM.
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Because the in\-place option converts the receive buffer into a
send\-and\-receive buffer, a Fortran binding that includes INTENT must
mark these as INOUT, not OUT.
.SH WHEN COMMUNICATOR IS AN INTER-COMMUNICATOR
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When the communicator is an inter\-communicator, the root process in the
first group sends data to all processes in the second group. The first
group defines the root process. That process uses MPI_ROOT as the value
of its \fIroot\fP argument. The remaining processes use \fBMPI_PROC_NULL\fP as the
value of their \fIroot\fP argument. All processes in the second group use
the rank of that root process in the first group as the value of their
\fIroot\fP argument. The receive buffer argument of the root process in the
first group must be consistent with the receive buffer argument of the
processes in the second group.
.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
MPI_Init \%<#\:mpi-init>/MPI_Init_thread \%<#\:mpi-init-thread>, after MPI_Finalize \%<#\:mpi-finalize>, or when using the Sessions
Model exclusively) the error raises the initial error handler. The initial
error handler can be changed by calling MPI_Comm_set_errhandler \%<#\:mpi-comm-set-errhandler> on
MPI_COMM_SELF when using the World model, or the mpi_initial_errhandler CLI
argument to mpiexec or info key to MPI_Comm_spawn \%<#\:mpi-comm-spawn>/MPI_Comm_spawn_multiple \%<#\:mpi-comm-spawn-multiple>\&.
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 MPI_Abort \%<#\:mpi-abort> was called on that communicator. If
called on a window or file, acts as if MPI_Abort \%<#\:mpi-abort> 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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MPI_Comm_create_errhandler \%<#\:mpi-comm-create-errhandler> then MPI_Comm_set_errhandler \%<#\:mpi-comm-set-errhandler>
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MPI_File_create_errhandler \%<#\:mpi-file-create-errhandler> then MPI_File_set_errhandler \%<#\:mpi-file-set-errhandler>
.IP \(bu 2
MPI_Session_create_errhandler \%<#\:mpi-session-create-errhandler> then MPI_Session_set_errhandler \%<#\:mpi-session-set-errhandler> or at MPI_Session_init \%<#\:mpi-session-init>
.IP \(bu 2
MPI_Win_create_errhandler \%<#\:mpi-win-create-errhandler> then MPI_Win_set_errhandler \%<#\:mpi-win-set-errhandler>
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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 MPI man page \%<#\:open-mpi> for a full list of MPI error codes \%<#\:open-mpi-errors>\&.
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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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MPI_Gather \%<#\:mpi-gather>
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MPI_Gatherv \%<#\:mpi-gatherv>
.IP \(bu 2
MPI_Scatter \%<#\:mpi-scatter>
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.SH Copyright
2003-2026, The Open MPI Community
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