Refactor: clean up BLACS initialization in Parallel_2D #4207
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What's changed?
Code relevant to the initialization of BLACS grid & its information is made slightly easier to read & maintain.
This PR is just a stage-1; further refactoring towards more convenient manipulation on 2d-block-cyclic data structure will follow.
Question
I gather BLACS would split the given communicator to get some new ones for its own purpose when initializing the process grid, so it might be unnecessary to create a Cartesian MPI communicator in advance, which means we might get rid of the function mpi_create_cart(MPI_Comm). However, I'm not completely sure whether a Cartesian MPI grid would have performance benefit; this needs to be verified by an MPI/ScaLAPACK expert.
Any changes of core modules? (ignore if not applicable)
No.