# Command: unittest::distributed_collect_assert_or_die

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Name:

    unittest::distributed_collect_assert_or_die - Checks whether result is independent of number of number of jobs

Synopsis:

    array proc proc distributed_collect assert_or_die ->	-
      array proc	 distributed_collect assert_or_die ->	-

Description:

      The array specifies a list of numbers of
      jobs. distributed_collect_assert_or_die executes the procedure specified as
      the second argument in parallel for all of the numbers of jobs given
      in the arrays. This means that distributed_collect_assert_or_die carries out
      as many distributed simulations as there are entries in the array.

      In each of the simulations all jobs are expected to return a value on
      the stack. The order in which the jobs are completed is of no
      importance.  After completion of all simulations
      distributed_collect_assert_or_die compares the sets of results of all
      the simulations using the comparison function supplied by the second
      procedure. If the second procedure is not given it requires that all
      jobs of all runs return true.

      A variant of this function distributed_collect_assert_or_die
      requires that the contents of all sets of results is identical. The
      order of the results in each set is irrelevant.

      distributed_collect_assert_or_die assumes that it is called from a
      file and that this file contains only a single call of
      distributed_collect_assert_or_die because all distributed instances of
      the simulator will rerun this file.  In addition the function assumes
      that the test file is run with a version of nest capable of spawning
      further instances of nest.  This can be assured by using nest_indirect
      instead of the nest binary directly. The test file should not make the
      call of distributed_collect_assert_or_die or the termination of the
      test file depending on the status flags is_mpi or have_mpi. This would
      interfere with the proper control flow and the status flags have
      already been checked by nest_indirect at this point.

Author:

    Diesmann

FirstVersion:

    100925

SeeAlso:

- unittest::distributed_assert_or_die
- unittest::distributed_collect_assert_or_die
- nest_indirect
- unittest::mpirun_self
- unittest::assert_or_die

Source:

    /opt/conda/conda-bld/nest_1512418773968/work/nest-2.14.0/lib/sli/unittest.sli

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