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+## Improved communication for parallel flow filters.
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+The communication was improved for the underlying algorithms used by the flow filters in the following ways:
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+1. Uses `MPI_Iprobe` to detect when messages have arrived from other ranks. Previously, it would post asynchronous receives and check if they were satisfied. Because of the fixed message size for the receives, larger messages were broken up into smaller messages, sent, and then assembled by the receiver.  This replaces all of this complexity.
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+2. Uses an asynchronous termination detection algorithm to determine when all work is completed.  Previously a global counter was used to determine when work was completed.