The array specifies a list of numbers of
jobs. distributed_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_assert_or_die carries out
as many distributed simulations as there are entries in the array.
In each of the simulations a single job is expected to return a
value on the stack. It is of no importance which job returns the
value. After completion of all simulations distributed_assert_or_die
compares the results of all the simulations using the second proc
as the test function. If no second proc is given distributed_assert_or_die
requires that all results are "true".
A variant of this function distributed_invariant_assert_or_die
requires all results to be identical.
distributed_assert_or_die assumes that it is called from a file and
that this file contains only a single call of
distributed_assert_or_die because all distributed instances of the
simulator will rerun this file. In addition distributed_assert_or_die
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_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 functioning of
distributed_assert_or_die and the status flags have already been
checked by nest_indirect at this point.
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