Command: ProcessorName

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Name:
 ProcessorName - Returns a unique specifier for the actual node.
Synopsis:
 ProcessorName -> string
Availability:
 NEST 2.0
Author:
 Alexander Hanuschkin
FirstVersion:
 April 2009
Description:
     This function returns the name of the processor it was called
     on (MPI_Get_processor_name). See MPI documentation for more details. If NEST is not
     compiled with MPI support, this function returns the hostname of
     the machine as returned by the POSIX function gethostname().
Examples:
     (I'm process ) =only Rank 1 add =only ( of ) =only NumProcesses =only ( on machine ) =only ProcessorName =
SeeAlso:Rank NumProcesses SyncProcesses
Source:
 /home/abuild/rpmbuild/BUILD/nest-2.4.1/nestkernel/nestmodule.cpp

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