Group, which is a subset of the group of comm (handle).
.SH OUTPUT PARAMETERS
.ft R
.TP 1i
newcomm
New communicator (handle).
.ft R
.TP 1i
IERROR
Fortran only: Error status (integer).
.SH DESCRIPTION
.ft R
This function creates a new communicator newcomm with communication
group defined by group and a new context. The function sets
\fInewcomm\fR to a new communicator that spans all the processes that
are in the group. It sets \fInewcomm\fR to MPI_COMM_NULL for
processes that are not in the group.
Each process must call with a \fIgroup\fR argument that is a subgroup
of the group associated with \fIcomm\fR; this could be
MPI_GROUP_EMPTY. The processes may specify different values for the
\fIgroup\fR argument. If a process calls with a non-empty \fIgroup\fR,
then all processes in that group must call the function with the same
\fIgroup\fR as argument, that is: the same processes in the same
order. Otherwise the call is erroneous.
.sp
.LP
.SH NOTES
MPI_Comm_create provides a means of making a subset of processes for the purpose of separate MIMD computation, with separate communication space. \fInewcomm\fR, which is created by MPI_Comm_create, can be used in subsequent calls to MPI_Comm_create (or other communicator constructors) to further subdivide a computation into parallel sub-computations. A more general service is provided by MPI_Comm_split.
Before the error value is returned, the current MPI error handler is
called. By default, this error handler aborts the MPI job, except for I/O function errors. The error handler may be changed with MPI_Comm_set_errhandler; the predefined error handler MPI_ERRORS_RETURN may be used to cause error values to be returned. Note that MPI does not guarantee that an MPI program can continue past an error.
