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dgscat(1)		    PT-Scotch user's manual		     dgscat(1)

NAME
       dgscat  - build distributed source graph	file fragments from a central-
       ized source graph file

SYNOPSIS
       dgscat [options]	[igfile] [ogfile]

DESCRIPTION
       The dgscat program reads	a centralized source graph igfile  and	writes
       it  back	on the form of a set of	files ogfile representing fragments of
       a distributed source graph.

       When file names are not specified, data is read from standard input and
       written to standard output. Standard streams  can  also	be  explicitly
       represented by a	dash '-'.

       When the	proper libraries have been included at compile time, dgord can
       directly	 handle	 compressed graphs, both as input and output. A	stream
       is treated as compressed	whenever its name is  postfixed	 with  a  com-
       pressed	file  extension, such as in 'brol.grf.bz2' or '-.gz'. The com-
       pression	formats	which can be supported are the bzip2 format  ('.bz2'),
       the gzip	format ('.gz'),	and the	lzma format ('.lzma', on input only).

       dgord  bases  on	 implementations  of  the MPI interface	to spread work
       across the processing elements. It is therefore not likely  to  be  run
       directly, but instead through some launcher command such	as mpirun.

DISTRIBUTED FILE NAMES
       In order	to tell	whether	programs should	read from, or write to,	a sin-
       gle file	located	on only	one processor, or to multiple instances	of the
       same  file  on all of the processors, or	else to	distinct files on each
       of the processors, a special grammar has	been designed, which is	 based
       on  the	'%'  escape character. Four such escape	sequences are defined,
       which are interpreted independently on every processor, prior  to  file
       opening.	 By  default,  when a filename is provided, it is assumed that
       the file	is to be opened	on only	one of the processors, called the root
       processor, which	is usually process 0 of	the communicator within	 which
       the  program  is	run. The index of the root processor can be changed by
       means of	the -r option. Using any of the	first three  escape  sequences
       below  will  instruct programs to open in parallel a file of name equal
       to the interpreted filename, on every processor on which	they are run.

       %p     Replaced by the number of	processes in the  global  communicator
	      in which the program is run. Leads to parallel opening.

       %r     Replaced on each process running the program by the rank of this
	      process in the global communicator. Leads	to parallel opening.

       %-     Discarded,  but  leads  to  parallel  opening.  This sequence is
	      mainly used to instruct programs to open on  every  processor  a
	      file  of	identical  name.  The  opened  files can be, according
	      whether the given	path leads to a	shared directory or to	direc-
	      tories  that  are	local to each processor, either	to the opening
	      of multiple instances of the same	file, or  to  the  opening  of
	      distinct	files which may	each have a different content, respec-
	      tively (but in this latter case it is much recommended to	 iden-
	      tify files by means of the '%r' sequence).

       %%     Replaced by a single '%' character. File names using this	escape
	      sequence	are not	considered for parallel	opening, unless	one or
	      several of the three other escape	sequences are also present.

       For instance, filename 'brol' will lead to the opening of  file	'brol'
       on  the	root processor only, filename '%-brol' (or even	'br%-ol') will
       lead to the parallel opening of files called 'brol' on every processor,
       and filename 'brol%p-%r'	will lead to the opening of files on which the
       program were to run.

OPTIONS
       -c     Check the	consistency of the input source	graph after loading it
	      into memory.

       -h     Display some help.

       -rpnum Set root process for centralized files (default is 0).

       -V     Display program version and copyright.

EXAMPLE
       Run dgscat on 5 processing elements to scatter centralized  graph  file
       brol.grf	   into	  5   gzipped	file   fragments   brol5-0.dgr.gz   to
       brol5-4.dgr.gz.

	   $ mpirun -np	5 dgscat brol.grf brol%p-%r.dgr.gz

SEE ALSO
       dgtst(1), dgord(1), gmk_hy(1).

       PT-Scotch user's	manual.

AUTHOR
       Francois	Pellegrini <francois.pellegrini@labri.fr>

				August 03, 2010			     dgscat(1)

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