# MPI_Cart_create

Makes a new communicator to which topology information has been attached

## Synopsis

    int MPI_Cart_create(MPI_Comm comm_old, int ndims, const int dims[],
                        const int periods[], int reorder, MPI_Comm * comm_cart)

## Input Parameters

comm_old
  input communicator (handle)
ndims
  number of dimensions of cartesian grid (integer)
dims
  integer array of size ndims specifying the number of processes in each dimension
periods
  logical array of size ndims specifying whether the grid is periodic (true) or not (false) in each dimension
reorder
  ranking may be reordered (true) or not (false) (logical)

## Output Parameters

comm_cart
  communicator with new cartesian topology (handle)

## Algorithm

We ignore `reorder` info currently.

## Thread and Interrupt Safety

This routine is thread-safe. This means that this routine may be safely used by multiple threads without the need for any user-provided thread locks. However, the routine is not interrupt safe. Typically, this is due to the use of memory allocation routines such as `malloc` or other non-MPICH runtime routines that are themselves not interrupt-safe.

## Notes for Fortran

All MPI routines in Fortran (except for `MPI_WTIME` and `MPI_WTICK`) have an additional argument `ierr` at the end of the argument list. `ierr` is an integer and has the same meaning as the return value of the routine in C. In Fortran, MPI routines are subroutines, and are invoked with the `call` statement.

All MPI objects (e.g., `MPI_Datatype`, `MPI_Comm`) are of type `INTEGER` in Fortran.

## Errors

All MPI routines (except `MPI_Wtime` and `MPI_Wtick`) return an error value; C routines as the value of the function and Fortran routines in the last argument. Before the value is returned, the current MPI error handler is called. By default, this error handler aborts the MPI job. The error handler may be changed with `MPI_Comm_set_errhandler` (for communicators), `MPI_File_set_errhandler` (for files), and `MPI_Win_set_errhandler` (for RMA windows). The MPI-1 routine `MPI_Errhandler_set` may be used but its use is deprecated. The predefined error handler `MPI_ERRORS_RETURN` may be used to cause error values to be returned. Note that MPI does not guarentee that an MPI program can continue past an error; however, MPI implementations will attempt to continue whenever possible.

MPI_SUCCESS
  No error; MPI routine completed successfully.

MPI_ERR_TOPOLOGY
  Invalid topology. Either there is no topology associated with this communicator, or it is not the correct type (e.g., `MPI_CART` when expecting `MPI_GRAPH`).

MPI_ERR_DIMS
  Invalid dimension argument. A dimension argument is null or its length is less than or equal to zero.

MPI_ERR_ARG
  Invalid argument. Some argument is invalid and is not identified by a specific error class (e.g., `MPI_ERR_RANK`).