from __future__ import print_function from mpi4py import MPI import numpy as np comm = MPI.COMM_WORLD size = comm.Get_size() rank = comm.Get_rank() if size != 2: raise RuntimeError("Please run with two MPI tasks") data = np.zeros((8,8), int) if rank == 0: for i in range(8): data[i,:] = np.arange(1, 9) + (i+1) * 10 if rank == 0: print("Original data:") print(data) # Create the custom datatype # Note: Python integers are 64 bits counts = np.arange(4, dtype=int) + 1 displacements = np.arange(4, dtype=int) * (1 + 2 * data.itemsize) indexedtype = MPI.INT64_T.Create_indexed(counts, displacements) indexedtype.Commit() if rank == 0: comm.Send((data, 1, indexedtype), dest=1) elif rank == 1: comm.Recv((data, 1, indexedtype), source=0) if rank == 1: print("Received data:") print(data)