MPB-MPI(1)

💖 MPB-MPI 💖

okay bestie, welcome to the MIT Photonic-Bands Package corner of the manual pages — section 1, commands, we're doing this 🎀

✨ NAME ✨

• mpb-mpi — the parallel (MPI) version of mpb 🦋
• mpbi-mpi — the parallel (MPI) version of mpbi ✨

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

So this manual page is giving you the lowdown on the mpb-mpi and mpbi-mpi commands. Briefly. Like, the ✨ essentials ✨, not the whole saga.

Real talk though: this manual page was written for the Debian GNU/Linux distribution, and the reason is honestly so valid — the original programs don't have a manual page at all. Not one. Nothing. So Debian said "fine, we'll do it ourselves 💅" and here we are.

🫶 so what even is mpb-mpi?

mpb-mpi is a version of mpb that was built with MPI support through the mpich implementation. And the way that this matters is — you can run it over a computer cluster to achieve distributed computations. 🔥

Like, one computer is cute. A whole cluster? That's main character energy. No cap.

🦋 and mpbi-mpi?

mpbi-mpi is equivalent to mpb-mpi — same vibe, same deal — but it requires, just like mpbi does, photonic structures that respect inversion symmetry.

🎀 heads up bestie: if your photonic structure isn't inversion-symmetric, mpbi-mpi is not the one. It literally requires it. That's the whole rule.

👑 SEE ALSO 👑

• mpb(1)
• mpbi(1)

go read those too, iykyk 💜

💅 AUTHOR 💅

mpbi was written by Steven G. Johnson <stevenj@alum.mit.edu> — iconic, we stan 🫶

This manual page was written by Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system — but it may be used by others, because sharing is caring fr fr. 🌈

and that's the whole page, bestie. it's from the MIT Photonic-Bands Package (MPB), dated Feb 5, 2003 — yes it's an elder but it ate and left no crumbs. go compute something distributed. periodt. 💖✨🎀