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MPI datatypes have two main purposes
- Heterogenity --- parallel programs between different processors
- Noncontiguous data --- structures, vectors with non-unit stride, etc.
Basic datatype, corresponding to the underlying language, are predefined.
The user can construct new datatypes at run time; these are called
derived datatypes.
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