From: "Rajeev Thakur" Date: January 14, 2008 10:48:53 PM CST To: "'William Gropp'" Subject: Reduce_scatter Bill, The definition of MPI_Reduce_scatter for intra-communicators says that the recvcounts array must be identical on all processes (http://www.mpi-forum.org/docs/mpi-11-html/node83.html). If we go by that definition, then the current defintion of reduce-scatter for inter-communicators is correct as it is. It says "Within each group, all processes provide the same recvcounts argument, and the sum of the recvcounts entries should be the same for the two groups." http://www.mpi-forum.org/docs/mpi-20-html/node150.htm Rajeev