So far we have used blocking communication:
-- MPI_Send does not complete until buffer is empty (available
for reuse).
-- MPI_Recv does not complete until buffer is full (available
for use).
Simple, but can be ``unsafe'':
Completion depends in general on size of message and amount of system
buffering.
127 Send works for small enough messages but fails when messages get too
large. Too large ranges from zero bytes to 100's of Megabytes.
