How to scattering a numpy array in python using comm.Scatterv
<p>I am tring to write a MPI-based code to do some calculation using python and MPI4py. However, following the example, I CANNOT scatter a numpy vector into cores. Here is the code and errors, is there anyone can help me? Thanks. </p>

<pre><code>import numpy as np
from mpi4py import MPI

comm = MPI.COMM_WORLD
size = comm.Get_size()
rank = comm.Get_rank()
n = 6

if rank == 0:
    d1 = np.arange(1, n+1)
    split = np.array_split(d1, size)
    split_size = [len(split[i]) for i in range(len(split))]
    split_disp = np.insert(np.cumsum(split_size), 0, 0)[0:-1]

else:
#Create variables on other cores
    d1 = None
    split = None
    split_size = None
    split_disp = None

split_size = comm.bcast(split_size, root = 0)
split_disp = comm.bcast(split_disp, root = 0)
d1_local = np.zeros(split_size[rank])
comm.Scatterv([d1, split_size, split_disp, MPI.DOUBLE], d1_local, root=0)
print('rank ', rank, ': ', d1_local)
</code></pre>

<p>And the error result is: </p>

<pre><code>rank  2 :  [  2.47032823e-323]
rank  3 :  [  2.96439388e-323]
rank  0 :  [  4.94065646e-324   9.88131292e-324]
rank  1 :  [  1.48219694e-323   1.97626258e-323]
</code></pre>

<p>Thanks. </p>

<p>The data type is not correct. I should specify the type of the array:</p>

<pre><code>d1 = np.arange(1, n+1, dtype='float64')
</code></pre>

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