ICETDATAREPLICATIONGROUPCOLOR(3)

✨ icetDataReplicationGroupColor(3) ✨

okay bestie, gather round, because this one is from the IceT Reference and it's lowkey one of the cutest little functions in the whole library 🫶

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💖 NAME 💖

icetDataReplicationGroupColor — define data replication. that's it, that's the whole job, she's serving one purpose and she's serving it flawlessly ✨

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🌸 Synopsis 🌸

#include <IceT.h>

void icetDataReplicationGroupColor(   IceTInt   color  );

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🎀 Description 🎀

so here's the tea ☕ IceT is obsessed with taking advantage of geometric data that's replicated among processes. like, if a whole group of processes is sharing the exact same geometry data, then IceT will split up the region of the display that the data projects onto among those processes, which means the total amount of image composition work that needs to be done goes way down. it's giving efficiency. it's giving teamwork. it's giving main character energy 💅

now, despite what the name of the function suggests, icetDataReplicationGroupColor has nothing to do with the color of the data being replicated. nothing!! zero!! 🙈 instead, color is used to mark the local process as part of a given group. so when you call icetDataReplicationGroupColor, it goes and finds all the other processes that have the same color, and it builds a group based on that information. iconic behavior, honestly 👑

⚠️ important bestie: icetDataReplicationGroupColor must be called on every process before the function will return. every. single. one. no skipping, no ghosting your other processes, periodt ✋💀

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💀 Errors 💀

None. not a single one. flawless, no notes 🌈

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🙈 Warnings 🙈

None. she's unproblematic, we love that for her 💜

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🦋 Bugs 🦋

okay so this is the part where we have to be careful, bestie, because IceT is assuming things and you know what they say about assuming 😭

IceT assumes that icetDataReplicationGroup is called with the exact same parameters on all processes belonging to a given group. likewise, IceT also assumes that all processes have called icetBoundingVertices or icetBoundingBox with the exact same parameters on all processes belonging to a given group.

these requirements are not strictly enforced, but if you fail to do it… yeah. some of the geometry may just not be rendered. it's giving "trust me bro" and honestly, you should just trust her 🫠

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👑 Copyright 👑

Copyright (C)2003 Sandia Corporation

Under the terms of Contract DE-AC04-94AL85000 with Sandia Corporation, the U.S. Government retains certain rights in this software.

This source code is released under the New BSD License.

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⭐ See Also ⭐

• icetDataReplicationGroup(3)
• icetBoundingVertices(3)
• icetBoundingBox(3)

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and that's the whole page, bestie!! this was the IceT Reference edition, dated September 20, and honestly? she ate. no crumbs left. go call this function on every process and slay 💖✨🎀🦋🌸