5.2.1. Starting Processes
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MPI applications may start new processes through an interface to an external process manager, which can range from a parallel operating system (CMOST) to layered software (POE) to an rsh command (p4).
MPI_COMM_SPAWN starts MPI processes and establishes communication with them, returning an intercommunicator. MPI_COMM_SPAWN_MULTIPLE starts several different binaries (or the same binary with different arguments), placing them in the same MPI_COMM_WORLD and returning an intercommunicator.
MPI uses the existing group abstraction to represent processes. A process is identified by a (group, rank) pair.
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