diff --git a/MPI_basic/AllReduce/StdDeviation.cpp b/MPI_basic/AllReduce/StdDeviation.cpp
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..8d4b4a4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/MPI_basic/AllReduce/StdDeviation.cpp
@@ -0,0 +1,57 @@
+#include <mpi.h>
+#include <cmath>
+#include <iostream>
+
+/*
+MPI_Allreduce(
+    void* send_data,        //the element to apply the reduce
+    void* recv_data,        //the reduce result
+    int count,              //size of result in recv_data is sizeof(datatype)*count
+    MPI_Datatype datatype,  //type of element
+    MPI_Op op,              //operation to apply. Can also be defined custom operation
+    MPI_Comm comm           //communicator
+    )
+*/
+int main(int argc, char* argv[])
+{
+    MPI_Init(&argc, &argv);   //Initialize the MPI environment //TODO perche qui non (NULL, NULL) ??
+
+    int world_size;
+    MPI_Comm_size(MPI_COMM_WORLD, &world_size);     //Get the number of processes
+
+    int world_rank;
+    MPI_Comm_rank(MPI_COMM_WORLD, &world_rank);     //Get the number of process
+
+    float rand_nums[10] = {1,2,3,42,55,66,71,82,93,190};
+    int size = 10;                                  //Related to the correct dize of rand_nums array
+
+    float local_sum = 0;
+
+    for(int i=0; i<size; i++)       //each process compute the sum (locally) 
+        local_sum += rand_nums[i];
+
+    std::cout << "STEP1-Process (rank " << world_rank+1 << "/" << world_size << ") sum is " << local_sum << std::endl;
+
+    //Reduce all the local sums into the global sum in order to calculate the mean
+
+    float global_sum;
+    //MPI_Allreduce(send_data, recv_data, count, datatype, op, comm)
+    MPI_Allreduce(&local_sum, &global_sum, 1, MPI_FLOAT, MPI_SUM, MPI_COMM_WORLD);
+    /*Come la Reduce ma senza il processo root perche' il risultato viene distribuito a tutti i processi*/
+    float mean = global_sum/(size * world_size);
+
+    float local_sq_diff = 0;
+    for(int i=0; i<size; i++)       //each process compute the sum of the squared differences from the mean (locally) 
+        local_sq_diff += (rand_nums[i] - mean) * (rand_nums[i] - mean);
+
+    std::cout << "STEP2-Process (rank " << world_rank+1 << "/" << world_size << ") sum of the squared differences from the mean is " << local_sq_diff << std::endl;
+
+    float global_sq_diff;
+    MPI_Reduce(&local_sq_diff, &global_sq_diff, 1, MPI_FLOAT, MPI_SUM, 1, MPI_COMM_WORLD);
+
+    if(world_rank == 1)
+        std::cout << " FINAL RESULT:" << std::endl << "Process (rank " << world_rank+1 << "/" << world_size << ") mean is " << mean << ", standard deviation is " << sqrt(global_sq_diff/(size*world_size)) << std::endl;
+
+    MPI_Finalize(); //Clean up the MPI environment
+    return 0;
+}
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diff --git a/MPI_basic/Barrier/Barrier.cpp b/MPI_basic/Barrier/Barrier.cpp
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..f29bcce
--- /dev/null
+++ b/MPI_basic/Barrier/Barrier.cpp
@@ -0,0 +1,30 @@
+#include <mpi.h>
+#include <iostream>
+#include <unistd.h>
+
+int main(int argc, char* argv[])
+{
+    double start, end;
+
+    MPI_Init(&argc, &argv);   //Initialize the MPI environment //TODO perche qui non (NULL, NULL) ??
+
+    int world_size;
+    MPI_Comm_size(MPI_COMM_WORLD, &world_size);    //Get the number of processes
+
+    int world_rank;
+    MPI_Comm_rank(MPI_COMM_WORLD, &world_rank);    //Get the number of process
+
+    MPI_Barrier(MPI_COMM_WORLD);
+    start = MPI_Wtime();                            //Microsecond precision. Can't use time(), because each process will have a different "zero" time
+
+    sleep(30);
+
+    MPI_Barrier(MPI_COMM_WORLD);
+    end = MPI_Wtime();
+
+    if(world_rank == 0)
+        std::cout << "Process (rank " << world_rank+1 << "/" << world_size << "): time of work is " << end-start << "seconds" << std::endl;
+
+    MPI_Finalize(); //Clean up the MPI environment
+    return 0;
+}
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diff --git a/MPI_basic/Broadcast/BroadcastTest.cpp b/MPI_basic/Broadcast/BroadcastTest.cpp
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..7d73425
--- /dev/null
+++ b/MPI_basic/Broadcast/BroadcastTest.cpp
@@ -0,0 +1,44 @@
+#include <mpi.h>
+#include <iostream>
+#include <cstdlib>
+#include <ctime>
+
+/*
+MPI_Bcast(
+    void* buffer,           //the element to send
+    int count,              //number of element to send
+    MPI_Datatype datatype,  //type of element
+    int root,               //rank of the process that have to sand value to others
+    MPI_Comm comm           //communicator
+    )
+*/
+int main(int argc, char* argv[])
+{
+    MPI_Init(&argc, &argv);   //Initialize the MPI environment //TODO perche qui non (NULL, NULL) ??
+
+    int world_size;
+    MPI_Comm_size(MPI_COMM_WORLD, &world_size);    //Get the number of processes
+
+    int recvbuf[4*world_size];
+
+    int world_rank;
+    MPI_Comm_rank(MPI_COMM_WORLD, &world_rank);    //Get the number of process
+
+    long long offset;
+    
+    std::srand(std::time(0) + world_rank);
+    offset = std::rand() % 100;                     //Give a random value to initialize element of each process 
+
+    std::cout << "Process (rank " << world_rank+1 << "/" << world_size << ") recived: " << offset << std::endl;
+
+    MPI_Barrier(MPI_COMM_WORLD);                    //Used to not mess with the prints
+
+    //MPI_Bcast(buffer, count, datatype, root, comm)
+    MPI_Bcast(&offset, 1, MPI_LONG_LONG, 0, MPI_COMM_WORLD);
+    /*Posso utilizzare BroadCast anche con un solo nodo, invia a se stesso. Non posso usilizzare come root un nodo con rank maggiore della size.*/
+
+    std::cout <<"Process (rank " << world_rank+1 << "/" << world_size << ") recived: " << offset << std::endl;
+
+    MPI_Finalize(); //Clean up the MPI environment
+    return 0;
+}
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diff --git a/MPI_basic/Communicators/SplitComm.cpp b/MPI_basic/Communicators/SplitComm.cpp
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..36e12c3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/MPI_basic/Communicators/SplitComm.cpp
@@ -0,0 +1,42 @@
+#include <mpi.h>
+#include <iostream>
+
+/*
+Creates new communicators by "splitting" a communicator into a group of sub-communicators based on the input values color and key.
+MPI_Comm_split(
+        MPI_Comm comm,      //communicator to split
+        int color,          //determines to which new communicator each process will belong. Same color same communicator
+        int key,            //determ the order(rank) within each new communicator. The smallest key value is assigned to 0, next to 1 and so on 
+        MPI_Comm* newcomm   //new communicator
+        )
+*/
+int main(int argc, char* argv[])
+{
+    MPI_Init(NULL, NULL);   //Initialize the MPI environment
+
+    int world_size;
+    MPI_Comm_size(MPI_COMM_WORLD, &world_size);    //Get the number of processes
+
+    int world_rank;
+    MPI_Comm_rank(MPI_COMM_WORLD, &world_rank);    //Get the number of process
+
+    //In the following code we suppose to have 10 processes and we want to split them in sub groups "rows" as they are a 2x5 Matrix
+
+    int color = world_rank / 2;         //Determine color based on row
+
+    MPI_Comm row_comm;          //To free
+    //MPI_Comm_split(comm, color, key, newcomm)
+    MPI_Comm_split(MPI_COMM_WORLD, color, -world_rank, &row_comm);
+
+    int row_size;
+    MPI_Comm_size(row_comm, &row_size);    //Get the number of processes related to the communicator
+    int row_rank;
+    MPI_Comm_rank(row_comm, &row_rank);    //Get the number of process related to the communicator
+
+    std::cout << "Process (rank " << world_rank+1 << "/" << world_size << ") is splitted to sub-group " << row_rank+1 << "/" << row_size << "-" << color << " (row/size-color)" << std::endl;
+
+    MPI_Comm_free(&row_comm);           //We have to free the communicator that we created above
+
+    MPI_Finalize(); //Clean up the MPI environment
+    return 0;
+}
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diff --git a/MPI_basic/Gather/GatherTest.cpp b/MPI_basic/Gather/GatherTest.cpp
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..70a932e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/MPI_basic/Gather/GatherTest.cpp
@@ -0,0 +1,51 @@
+#include <mpi.h>
+#include <iostream>
+
+/*
+MPI_Gather(
+    const void* sendbuf,    //the element to send
+    int sendcount,          //number of element to send
+    MPI_Datatype sendtype,  //type of element
+    void* recvbuf,          //buffer to receive
+    int recvcount,          //number of elements to receive from each process
+    MPI_Datatype recvtype,  //type of element
+    int root,               //rank of the process that have to receive
+    MPI_Comm comm           //communicator
+    )
+*/
+int main(int argc, char* argv[])
+{
+    int sendbuf[4] = {1,2,3,4};
+
+    MPI_Init(&argc, &argv);   //Initialize the MPI environment //TODO perche qui non (NULL, NULL) ??
+
+    int world_size;
+    MPI_Comm_size(MPI_COMM_WORLD, &world_size);    //Get the number of processes
+
+    int recvbuf[4*world_size];
+
+    int world_rank;
+    MPI_Comm_rank(MPI_COMM_WORLD, &world_rank);    //Get the number of process
+
+    //MPI_Gather(sendbuf, sendcount, sendtype, recvbuf, recvcount, recvtype, root, comm)
+    MPI_Gather(sendbuf, 3, MPI_INT, recvbuf, 4, MPI_INT, 1, MPI_COMM_WORLD);
+        /*Il sendcount non puo esere maggiore della dimensione del sendbuffer ma puo essere minore, tuttavia
+        il processo root si aspetta di ricevere tutto il buffer di partenza. Per questo motivo oltre a dimensionare
+        il recvbuf in modo appropriato bisogna ricordare che il processo root disporra in questo modo i dati che
+        riceve: [expectedFrom0-0, expectedFrom0-1, expectedFrom0-2, expectedFrom0-3, expectedFrom1-0, ...] supponendo un sendbuf da 4.
+        Se vengono inviati meno dati dell'originale, supponiamo 3, allora la parte expectedFrom*-3 risultera' casualmente riempita.
+        Il processo root riceve anche i dati che si manda da solo come se facesse parte dei senders.*/
+
+    if(world_rank == 1)
+    {
+        std::cout << "Process (rank " << world_rank+1 << "/" << world_size << ") recived:" << std::endl;
+        for (int i=0; i<4*world_size; i++)
+        {
+            std::cout << " " << recvbuf[i] << " ";
+        }
+        std::cout << std::endl;
+    }
+
+    MPI_Finalize(); //Clean up the MPI environment
+    return 0;
+}
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diff --git a/MPI_basic/Groups/Group.cpp b/MPI_basic/Groups/Group.cpp
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..5eec40b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/MPI_basic/Groups/Group.cpp
@@ -0,0 +1,79 @@
+#include <mpi.h>
+#include <iostream>
+
+/*
+A group is just the set of all processes in the communicator.
+A remote operation involves communication with other ranks whereas a local
+operation does not. Creating a new communicator is a remote operation
+because all processes need to decide on the same context and group, whereas
+creating a group is local because it isn’t used for communication and
+therefore doesn’t need to have the same context for each process. You can
+manipulate a group all you like without performing any communication at all.
+
+MPI_Comm_group(
+        MPI_Comm comm,      //context communicator
+        MPI_Comm* group     //the group created
+        )
+MPI_Comm_create_group(
+        MPI_Comm comm,      //context communicator
+        MPI_Group group,    //group, which is a subset of the group of comm
+        int tag,            // ???
+        MPI_Comm* newcomm   //the group created (?something like a sub-group?)
+        )
+MPI_Group_union(
+        MPI_Group group1,
+        MPI_Group group2,
+        MPI_Group* newgroup     //the group created by the union
+        )
+MPI_Group_intersection(
+        MPI_Group group1,
+        MPI_Group group2,
+        MPI_Group* newgroup     //the group created by the intersection
+        )
+MPI_Group_incl(
+        MPI_Group group,        //group of processes where ranks value are contained, at least
+        int n,                  //size of ranks
+        const int ranks[],      //ranks to chose
+        MPI_Group* newgroup     //group with only the specific ranks from the other group
+        )
+*/
+int main(int argc, char* argv[])
+{
+    MPI_Init(NULL, NULL);   //Initialize the MPI environment
+
+    int world_size;
+    MPI_Comm_size(MPI_COMM_WORLD, &world_size);    //Get the number of processes
+
+    int world_rank;
+    MPI_Comm_rank(MPI_COMM_WORLD, &world_rank);    //Get the number of process
+
+    MPI_Group world_group;          //To free
+    //MPI_Comm_group(comm, group)
+    MPI_Comm_group(MPI_COMM_WORLD, &world_group);
+
+    const int ranks[5] = {1,3,5,7,9};               //Just use ranks that are in the group
+
+    MPI_Group spare_group;          //To free
+    //MPI_Group_incl(group, n, ranks[], newgroup)
+    MPI_Group_incl(world_group, 5, ranks, &spare_group);
+
+    MPI_Comm spare_comm;            //To free
+    //MPI_Comm_create_group(comm, group, tag, newcomm)
+    MPI_Comm_create_group(MPI_COMM_WORLD, spare_group, 0, &spare_comm);
+
+    int spare_rank = -1, spare_size = -1;           //If this rank isn't in the new communicator, it will be MPI_COMM_NULL. Using MPI_COMM_NULL for MPI_Comm_rank or MPI_Comm_size is erroneous
+    if(MPI_COMM_NULL != spare_comm)
+    {
+        MPI_Comm_size(spare_comm, &spare_size);     //Get the number of processes related to the communicator
+        MPI_Comm_rank(spare_comm, &spare_rank);     //Get the number of process related to the communicator
+    }
+
+    std::cout << "Process (rank " << world_rank+1 << "/" << world_size << ") is splitted to sub-group " << spare_rank+1 << "/" << spare_size << " (row/size)" << std::endl;
+
+    MPI_Group_free(&world_group);           //We have to free the group that we created above
+    MPI_Group_free(&spare_group);           //We have to free the group that we created above
+    MPI_Comm_free(&spare_comm);             //We have to free the communicator that we created above
+
+    MPI_Finalize(); //Clean up the MPI environment
+    return 0;
+}
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diff --git a/MPI_basic/Hello_World/HelloWorld.cpp b/MPI_basic/Hello_World/HelloWorld.cpp
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..9a5a340
--- /dev/null
+++ b/MPI_basic/Hello_World/HelloWorld.cpp
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+#include <mpi.h>
+#include <iostream>
+
+int main(int argc, char* argv[])
+{
+    MPI_Init(NULL, NULL);   //Initialize the MPI environment
+
+    int world_size;
+    MPI_Comm_size(MPI_COMM_WORLD, &world_size);    //Get the number of processes
+
+    int world_rank;
+    MPI_Comm_rank(MPI_COMM_WORLD, &world_rank);    //Get the number of process
+
+    char processor_name[MPI_MAX_PROCESSOR_NAME];
+    int name_len;
+    MPI_Get_processor_name(processor_name, &name_len);   //Get the name of the processor
+
+    std::cout << "Hello World from '" << processor_name << "'(lenght:" << name_len << ") (rank " << world_rank+1 << " out of " << world_size << " process)" << std::endl;
+    MPI_Finalize(); //Clean up the MPI environment
+    return 0;
+}
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diff --git a/MPI_basic/Makefile b/MPI_basic/Makefile
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..523be38
--- /dev/null
+++ b/MPI_basic/Makefile
@@ -0,0 +1,119 @@
+# Program for compiling MPI cpp programs
+CC		= mpicxx
+CXX		= mpicxx
+# Extra flags to give to the processor compiler
+CFLAGS	= -g
+#  -Wall -Werror -Wextra
+
+#
+SRC		= $(wildcard *.cpp)
+OBJ		= $(SRC:.cpp=.o)
+NAME	= test_computation
+
+# SBATCH parameters
+JOBNAME	= Distributed_Sorting
+PARTITION = production
+TIME = 12:00:00
+MEM = 3G
+NODELIST = steffe[1-10]
+CPUS_PER_TASK = 1
+NTASKS_PER_NODE = 1
+OUTPUT = ./%x.%j.out
+ERROR = ./e%x.%j.err
+
+#
+.PHONY: all run detail clean fclean re
+
+.o: .cpp
+	$(CC) -c $(CFLAGS) $< -o $@
+
+all: $(NAME)
+
+$(NAME): $(OBJ)
+	$(CC) $(CFLAGS) -o $@ $^
+
+run: $(NAME)
+## Se modifico il Makefile con i parametri di sbatch ricreo anche il launcher.sh
+#	@if ! [ -f launcher.sh ]; then \
+
+		@echo "#!/bin/bash" >  launcher.sh; \
+		echo "## sbatch is the command line interpreter for Slurm" >> launcher.sh; \
+		echo "" >> launcher.sh; \
+		echo "## specify the name of the job in the queueing system" >> launcher.sh; \
+		echo "#SBATCH --job-name=$(JOBNAME)" >> launcher.sh; \
+		echo "## specify the partition for the resource allocation. if not specified, slurm is allowed to take the default(the one with a star *)" >> launcher.sh; \
+		echo "#SBATCH --partition=$(PARTITION)" >> launcher.sh; \
+		echo "## format for time is days-hours:minutes:seconds, is used as time limit for the execution duration" >> launcher.sh; \
+		echo "#SBATCH --time=$(TIME)" >> launcher.sh; \
+		echo "## specify the real memory required per node. suffix can be K-M-G-T but if not present is MegaBytes by default" >> launcher.sh; \
+		echo "#SBATCH --mem=$(MEM)" >> launcher.sh; \
+		echo "## format for hosts as a range(steffe[1-4,10-15,20]), to specify hosts needed to satisfy resource requirements" >> launcher.sh; \
+		echo "#SBATCH --nodelist=$(NODELIST)" >> launcher.sh; \
+		echo "## to specify the number of processors per task, default is one" >> launcher.sh; \
+		echo "#SBATCH --cpus-per-task=$(CPUS_PER_TASK)" >> launcher.sh; \
+		echo "## to specify the number of tasks to be invoked on each node" >> launcher.sh; \
+		echo "#SBATCH --ntasks-per-node=$(NTASKS_PER_NODE)" >> launcher.sh; \
+		echo "## to specify the file of utput and error" >> launcher.sh; \
+		echo "#SBATCH --output $(OUTPUT)" >> launcher.sh; \
+		echo "#SBATCH --error $(ERROR)" >> launcher.sh; \
+		echo "" >> launcher.sh; \
+		echo "mpirun $(NAME)" >> launcher.sh; \
+		chmod +x launcher.sh; \
+		echo "The 'launcher.sh' script has been created and is ready to run."; \
+
+#	else \
+#		chmod +x launcher.sh; \
+#	fi
+	@echo; sbatch launcher.sh
+	@echo "  To see job list you can use 'squeue'."
+	@echo "  To cancel a job you can use 'scancel jobid'."
+	
+detail:
+	@echo "Compiler flags and options that mpicxx would use for compiling an MPI program: "
+	@mpicxx --showme:compile
+	@echo
+	@echo "Linker flags and options that mpicxx would use for linking an MPI program: "
+	@mpicxx --showme:link
+
+clean:
+## Sembra non funzionare read
+#	read -p "rm: remove all files \"./$(JOBNAME).*.out\" and \"./e$(JOBNAME).*.err\"? (y/n)" choice
+#	@if [ "$$choice" = "y" ]; then \
+
+		@echo rm -f ./$(JOBNAME).*.out
+		@for file in ./$(JOBNAME).*.out; do \
+			rm -f "$$file"; \
+		done
+		@echo rm -f ./e$(JOBNAME).*.err
+		@for file in ./e$(JOBNAME).*.err; do \
+			rm -f "$$file"; \
+		done
+
+#	fi
+	rm -f *~ $(OBJ)
+
+fclean: clean
+	@if [ -f launcher.sh ]; then \
+		rm -i ./launcher.sh; \
+	fi
+	rm -f $(NAME)
+
+re: fclean all
+
+
+
+# mpicxx *.c
+
+# mpirun/mpiexec ...	//will run X copies of the program in the current run-time environment, scheduling(by default) in a round-robin fashion by CPU slot.
+
+# SLIDE 5 Durastante
+# The Script
+# #!/bin/bash
+# #SBATCH --job-name=dascegliere
+# #SBATCH --mem=size[unis]
+# #SBATCH -n 10
+# #SBATCH --time=12:00:00
+# #SBATCH --nodelist=lista
+# #SBATCH --partition=ports
+# #ecc..
+# mpirun ...
diff --git a/MPI_basic/Messaging/PingPong.cpp b/MPI_basic/Messaging/PingPong.cpp
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..54d0882
--- /dev/null
+++ b/MPI_basic/Messaging/PingPong.cpp
@@ -0,0 +1,67 @@
+#include <mpi.h>
+#include <iostream>
+
+/*
+MPI_Send(
+        void* data,              //data buffer
+        int count,               //count of elements
+        MPI_Datatype datatype,   //type of element
+        int destination,         //rank of receiver
+        int tag,                 //tag of message
+        MPI_Comm communicator    //communicator
+        )
+MPI_Recv(
+        void* data,              //data buffer
+        int count,               //count of elements
+        MPI_Datatype datatype,   //type of element
+        int source,              //rank of receiver
+        int tag,                 //tag of message
+        MPI_Comm communicator,   //communicator
+        MPI_Status* status       //about received message
+        )
+*/
+int main(int argc, char* argv[])
+{
+    const long long PINGPONG_MAX = 3;
+
+    MPI_Init(NULL, NULL);   //Initialize the MPI environment
+
+    int world_size;
+    MPI_Comm_size(MPI_COMM_WORLD, &world_size);    //Get the number of processes
+
+    int world_rank;
+    MPI_Comm_rank(MPI_COMM_WORLD, &world_rank);    //Get the number of process
+
+    if (world_size % 2 != 0)
+    {
+        std::cerr << "World size must be pair, actually is " << world_rank+1 << " (odd)" << std::endl;
+        MPI_Abort(MPI_COMM_WORLD, 1);
+    }
+
+    long long pingpong_count = 0;
+    int partner_rank;
+
+    if (world_rank % 2 == 0)
+        partner_rank = (world_rank + 1);
+    else
+        partner_rank = (world_rank - 1);
+    while (pingpong_count < PINGPONG_MAX)
+    {
+        if (world_rank%2 == pingpong_count%2)
+        {
+            pingpong_count++;
+            // MPI_Send(data, count, datatype, dest, tag, communicator)
+            MPI_Send(&pingpong_count, 1, MPI_LONG_LONG, partner_rank, 0, MPI_COMM_WORLD);
+            std::cout << "(PING)Process (rank " << world_rank+1 << "/" << world_size << ") sent '" << pingpong_count << "' to " << partner_rank+1 << std::endl;
+        }
+        else
+        {
+            // MPI_Recv(data, count, datatype, source, tag, communicator, status)
+            MPI_Recv(&pingpong_count, 1, MPI_LONG_LONG, partner_rank, 0, MPI_COMM_WORLD, MPI_STATUS_IGNORE);
+            std::cout << "(PONG)Process (rank " << world_rank+1 << "/" << world_size << ") received '" << pingpong_count << "' from " << partner_rank+1 << std::endl;
+        }
+    }
+
+    MPI_Finalize(); //Clean up the MPI environment
+    return 0;
+}
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/MPI_basic/MessagingBarrier/PingPongBarrier.cpp b/MPI_basic/MessagingBarrier/PingPongBarrier.cpp
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..fb4d87c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/MPI_basic/MessagingBarrier/PingPongBarrier.cpp
@@ -0,0 +1,72 @@
+#include <mpi.h>
+#include <iostream>
+
+/*
+MPI_Send(
+        void* data,              //data buffer
+        int count,               //count of elements
+        MPI_Datatype datatype,   //type of element
+        int destination,         //rank of receiver
+        int tag,                 //tag of message
+        MPI_Comm communicator    //communicator
+        )
+MPI_Recv(
+        void* data,              //data buffer
+        int count,               //count of elements
+        MPI_Datatype datatype,   //type of element
+        int source,              //rank of receiver
+        int tag,                 //tag of message
+        MPI_Comm communicator,   //communicator
+        MPI_Status* status       //about received message
+        )
+*/
+int main(int argc, char* argv[])
+{
+    const long long PINGPONG_MAX = 3;
+
+    MPI_Init(NULL, NULL);   //Initialize the MPI environment
+
+    int world_size;
+    MPI_Comm_size(MPI_COMM_WORLD, &world_size);    //Get the number of processes
+
+    int world_rank;
+    MPI_Comm_rank(MPI_COMM_WORLD, &world_rank);    //Get the number of process
+
+    if (world_size % 2 != 0)
+    {
+        std::cerr << "World size must be pair, actually is " << world_rank+1 << " (odd)" << std::endl;
+        MPI_Abort(MPI_COMM_WORLD, 1);
+    }
+
+    long long pingpong_count = 0;
+    int partner_rank;
+    if (world_rank % 2 == 0)
+        partner_rank = (world_rank + 1);
+    else
+        partner_rank = (world_rank - 1);
+    std::cout << "Process (rank " << world_rank+1 << "/" << world_size << "): my partner is " << partner_rank+1 << std::endl;
+
+    MPI_Barrier(MPI_COMM_WORLD);
+    if (world_rank == 0)
+        std::cout << "Passed Barrier" << std::endl;
+
+    while (pingpong_count < PINGPONG_MAX)
+    {
+        if (world_rank%2 == pingpong_count%2)
+        {
+            pingpong_count++;
+            // MPI_Send(data, count, datatype, dest, tag, communicator)
+            MPI_Send(&pingpong_count, 1, MPI_LONG_LONG, partner_rank, 0, MPI_COMM_WORLD);
+            std::cout << "Process (rank " << world_rank+1 << "/" << world_size << ") sent '" << pingpong_count << "' to " << partner_rank+1 << std::endl;
+        }
+        else
+        {
+            // MPI_Recv(data, count, datatype, source, tag, communicator, status)
+            MPI_Recv(&pingpong_count, 1, MPI_LONG_LONG, partner_rank, 0, MPI_COMM_WORLD, MPI_STATUS_IGNORE);
+            std::cout << "Process (rank " << world_rank+1 << "/" << world_size << ") received '" << pingpong_count << "' from " << partner_rank+1 << std::endl;
+        }
+    }
+
+    MPI_Finalize(); //Clean up the MPI environment
+    return 0;
+}
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/MPI_basic/MessagingRing/Ring.cpp b/MPI_basic/MessagingRing/Ring.cpp
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..79fdf24
--- /dev/null
+++ b/MPI_basic/MessagingRing/Ring.cpp
@@ -0,0 +1,57 @@
+#include <mpi.h>
+#include <iostream>
+
+/*
+MPI_Send(
+        void* data,              //data buffer
+        int count,               //count of elements
+        MPI_Datatype datatype,   //type of element
+        int destination,         //rank of receiver
+        int tag,                 //tag of message
+        MPI_Comm communicator    //communicator
+        )
+MPI_Recv(
+        void* data,              //data buffer
+        int count,               //count of elements
+        MPI_Datatype datatype,   //type of element
+        int source,              //rank of receiver
+        int tag,                 //tag of message
+        MPI_Comm communicator,   //communicator
+        MPI_Status* status       //about received message
+        )
+*/
+int main(int argc, char* argv[])
+{
+    MPI_Init(NULL, NULL);   //Initialize the MPI environment
+
+    int world_size;
+    MPI_Comm_size(MPI_COMM_WORLD, &world_size);    //Get the number of processes
+
+    int world_rank;
+    MPI_Comm_rank(MPI_COMM_WORLD, &world_rank);    //Get the number of process
+
+    long long token;
+
+    if (world_rank != 0)
+    {
+            // MPI_Recv(data, count, datatype, source, tag, communicator, status)
+            MPI_Recv(&token, 1, MPI_LONG_LONG, world_rank-1, 0, MPI_COMM_WORLD, MPI_STATUS_IGNORE);                     //We use MPI_Recv to force not 0 process to wait the token, this because the function is blocking
+            std::cout << "Process (rank " << world_rank+1 << "/" << world_size << ") received '" << token << "' from " << world_rank << std::endl;
+    }
+    else
+        token = 19;                 //Setup the token value if im processor 0
+
+    // MPI_Send(data, count, datatype, dest, tag, communicator)
+    MPI_Send(&token, 1, MPI_LONG_LONG, (world_rank+1)%world_size, 0, MPI_COMM_WORLD);                                   //As first time for process 0, each process after getting the token, send it to the next(+1) process
+
+    //Make process 0 finally get able to retrieve his token after passing it
+    if (world_rank == 0)
+    {
+            // MPI_Recv(data, count, datatype, source, tag, communicator, status)
+            MPI_Recv(&token, 1, MPI_LONG_LONG, (world_rank-1)%world_size, 0, MPI_COMM_WORLD, MPI_STATUS_IGNORE);        //To recive the last Send token before ending
+            std::cout << "Process (rank " << world_rank+1 << "/" << world_size << ") received '" << token << "' from " << (world_rank)%world_size << std::endl;
+    }
+
+    MPI_Finalize(); //Clean up the MPI environment
+    return 0;
+}
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/MPI_basic/README b/MPI_basic/README
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..3030399
--- /dev/null
+++ b/MPI_basic/README
@@ -0,0 +1,28 @@
+# Usage of cluster with slurm
+
+Information about che cluster and partitions could be obtained doing:
+ sinfo
+ scontrol show partition
+
+With srun we cen reserve a subset of the resources of the compute nodes for out tasks:
+More parameters are provided in the documentation.
+ srun --partition=production --time=00:30:00 --nodes=1 --pty bash -i
+ (take for half hour 1 node from the production partition and launch the command 'bash -i')
+
+To simplify all this expression we can create a basic batch file with all directives and the code to run.
+Is a good thing to redirect the output in a file to save it securely.
+ sbatch run.sh
+
+Example of batch script
+ #!/bin/bash
+ #SBATCH -n 10
+ #SBATCH --time=00:30:00
+ ...
+ mpirun ./my_exec_code
+
+To see the queue of jobs in the system we can run
+ squeue
+ squeue --long
+
+To remove a job from the queue we can run
+ scancel <job/process_id>
diff --git a/MPI_basic/Reduce/Average.cpp b/MPI_basic/Reduce/Average.cpp
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..4a2a074
--- /dev/null
+++ b/MPI_basic/Reduce/Average.cpp
@@ -0,0 +1,48 @@
+#include <mpi.h>
+#include <iostream>
+
+/*
+MPI_Reduce(
+    void* send_data,        //the element to apply the reduce
+    void* recv_data,        //the reduce result
+    int count,              //size of result in recv_data is sizeof(datatype)*count
+    MPI_Datatype datatype,  //type of element
+    MPI_Op op,              //operation to apply. Can also be defined custom operation
+    int root,               //rank of the process that receive result
+    MPI_Comm comm           //communicator
+    )
+*/
+int main(int argc, char* argv[])
+{
+    MPI_Init(&argc, &argv);   //Initialize the MPI environment //TODO perche qui non (NULL, NULL) ??
+
+    int world_size;
+    MPI_Comm_size(MPI_COMM_WORLD, &world_size);    //Get the number of processes
+
+    int world_rank;
+    MPI_Comm_rank(MPI_COMM_WORLD, &world_rank);    //Get the number of process
+
+    float rand_nums[4] = {1,2,3,42};
+    int size = 4;                                   //Related to the correct dize of rand_nums array
+
+    float local_sum = 0;
+
+    for(int i=0; i<size; i++)       //each process compute the sum locally 
+        local_sum += rand_nums[i];
+
+    std::cout << "Process (rank " << world_rank+1 << "/" << world_size << ") sum is " << local_sum << " avg is " << local_sum/size << std::endl;
+
+    if(world_rank%2 == 0)       //explicative example part
+        local_sum = 1;
+
+    float global_sum;
+    //MPI_Reduce(send_data, recv_data, count, datatype, op, root, comm)
+    MPI_Reduce(&local_sum, &global_sum, 1, MPI_FLOAT, MPI_SUM, 2, MPI_COMM_WORLD);
+    /*Il processo root(suppongo), esegue l'operazione specificata su ogni elemento send_data che gli altri processi hanno riempito*/
+
+    if(world_rank == 2)
+        std::cout << " USING REDUCE:" << std::endl << "Process (rank " << world_rank+1 << "/" << world_size << ") sum is " << global_sum << " avg of averages is " << global_sum/(world_size*size) << std::endl;
+
+    MPI_Finalize(); //Clean up the MPI environment
+    return 0;
+}
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/MPI_basic/Scatter/ScatterTest.cpp b/MPI_basic/Scatter/ScatterTest.cpp
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..1cb4dec
--- /dev/null
+++ b/MPI_basic/Scatter/ScatterTest.cpp
@@ -0,0 +1,47 @@
+#include <mpi.h>
+#include <iostream>
+
+/*
+MPI_Scatter(
+    const void* sendbuf,    //the element to send
+    int sendcount,          //number of element to send
+    MPI_Datatype sendtype,  //type of element
+    void* recvbuf,          //buffer to receive
+    int recvcount,          //number of elements to receive from each process
+    MPI_Datatype recvtype,  //type of element
+    int root,               //rank of the process that have to receive
+    MPI_Comm comm           //communicator
+    )
+*/
+int main(int argc, char* argv[])
+{
+    int sendbuf[16] = {1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16};
+    int recvbuf[4];
+
+    MPI_Init(&argc, &argv);   //Initialize the MPI environment //TODO perche qui non (NULL, NULL) ??
+
+    int world_size;
+    MPI_Comm_size(MPI_COMM_WORLD, &world_size);    //Get the number of processes
+
+    if (world_size != 4)
+    {
+        std::cerr << "World size must be 4 for this example, actually is " << world_size << std::endl;
+        MPI_Abort(MPI_COMM_WORLD, 1);
+    }
+
+    int world_rank;
+    MPI_Comm_rank(MPI_COMM_WORLD, &world_rank);    //Get the number of process
+
+    //MPI_Scatter(sendbuf, sendcount, sendtype, recvbuf, recvcount, recvtype, root, comm)
+    MPI_Scatter(sendbuf, 5, MPI_INT, recvbuf, 6, MPI_INT, 0, MPI_COMM_WORLD);
+    /*Il nodo di root comprende se stesso per dividere i dati e se ne invia una perte.Il counter degli
+    elementi ricevuti deve essere almeno della dimensione di quelli mandati per funzionare. Quando vado a decidere quanti elementi mandare
+    posso mettere qualsiasi numero, anche se non stanno nel recvbuf, vengono salvati solo quelli per cui c'e spazio. Poiche facendo
+    cosi finiranno prima i valori, se rimane da mandare solo un numero e ne devono essere inviati N ne viene inviato
+    solo 1 (solo fino a svuotare il sendbuf)*/
+
+    std::cout << "Process (rank " << world_rank+1 << "/" << world_size << ") recived: " << recvbuf[0] << ", " << recvbuf[1] << ", " << recvbuf[2] << ", " << recvbuf[3] <<std::endl;
+
+    MPI_Finalize(); //Clean up the MPI environment
+    return 0;
+}
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/SortingAlg/Makefile b/SortingAlg/Makefile
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..ef9e32d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/SortingAlg/Makefile
@@ -0,0 +1,120 @@
+# Program for compiling MPI cpp programs
+CC		= mpicxx
+CXX		= mpicxx
+# Extra flags to give to the processor compiler
+CFLAGS	= -g
+#TODO  -Wall -Werror -Wextra
+
+#
+SRC		= main.cpp
+OBJ		= $(SRC:.cpp=.o)
+NAME	= merge_sort_enhanced
+
+# SBATCH parameters
+JOBNAME	= Distributed_Sorting
+PARTITION = production
+TIME = 12:00:00
+MEM = 3G
+NODELIST = steffe[12-14]
+CPUS_PER_TASK = 1
+NTASKS_PER_NODE = 1
+OUTPUT = ./%x.%j.out
+ERROR = ./e%x.%j.err
+
+#
+.PHONY: all run detail clean fclean re
+
+.o: .cpp
+	$(CC) -c $(CFLAGS) $< -o $@
+
+all: $(NAME)
+
+$(NAME): $(OBJ)
+	$(CC) $(CFLAGS) -o $@ $^
+
+run: $(NAME)
+## Se modifico il Makefile con i parametri di sbatch ricreo anche il launcher.sh
+#	@if ! [ -f launcher.sh ]; then \
+
+		@echo "#!/bin/bash" >  launcher.sh; \
+		echo "## sbatch is the command line interpreter for Slurm" >> launcher.sh; \
+		echo "" >> launcher.sh; \
+		echo "## specify the name of the job in the queueing system" >> launcher.sh; \
+		echo "#SBATCH --job-name=$(JOBNAME)" >> launcher.sh; \
+		echo "## specify the partition for the resource allocation. if not specified, slurm is allowed to take the default(the one with a star *)" >> launcher.sh; \
+		echo "#SBATCH --partition=$(PARTITION)" >> launcher.sh; \
+		echo "## format for time is days-hours:minutes:seconds, is used as time limit for the execution duration" >> launcher.sh; \
+		echo "#SBATCH --time=$(TIME)" >> launcher.sh; \
+		echo "## specify the real memory required per node. suffix can be K-M-G-T but if not present is MegaBytes by default" >> launcher.sh; \
+		echo "#SBATCH --mem=$(MEM)" >> launcher.sh; \
+		echo "## format for hosts as a range(steffe[1-4,10-15,20]), to specify hosts needed to satisfy resource requirements" >> launcher.sh; \
+		echo "#SBATCH --nodelist=$(NODELIST)" >> launcher.sh; \
+		echo "## to specify the number of processors per task, default is one" >> launcher.sh; \
+		echo "#SBATCH --cpus-per-task=$(CPUS_PER_TASK)" >> launcher.sh; \
+		echo "## to specify the number of tasks to be invoked on each node" >> launcher.sh; \
+		echo "#SBATCH --ntasks-per-node=$(NTASKS_PER_NODE)" >> launcher.sh; \
+		echo "## to specify the file of utput and error" >> launcher.sh; \
+		echo "#SBATCH --output $(OUTPUT)" >> launcher.sh; \
+		echo "#SBATCH --error $(ERROR)" >> launcher.sh; \
+		echo "" >> launcher.sh; \
+		echo "mpirun $(NAME) $(ARGS)" >> launcher.sh; \
+		chmod +x launcher.sh; \
+		echo "The 'launcher.sh' script has been created and is ready to run."; \
+
+#	else \
+#		chmod +x launcher.sh; \
+#	fi
+	@echo; sbatch launcher.sh
+	@echo "  To see job list you can use 'squeue'."
+	@echo "  To cancel a job you can use 'scancel jobid'."
+	
+detail:
+	@echo "Compiler flags and options that mpicxx would use for compiling an MPI program: "
+	@mpicxx --showme:compile
+	@echo
+	@echo "Linker flags and options that mpicxx would use for linking an MPI program: "
+	@mpicxx --showme:link
+
+clean:
+## Sembra non funzionare read
+#	read -p "rm: remove all files \"./$(JOBNAME).*.out\" and \"./e$(JOBNAME).*.err\"? (y/n)" choice
+#	@if [ "$$choice" = "y" ]; then \
+
+		@echo rm -f ./$(JOBNAME).*.out
+		@for file in ./$(JOBNAME).*.out; do \
+			rm -f "$$file"; \
+		done
+		@echo rm -f ./e$(JOBNAME).*.err
+		@for file in ./e$(JOBNAME).*.err; do \
+			rm -f "$$file"; \
+		done
+
+#	fi
+	rm -f *~ $(OBJ)
+
+fclean: clean
+	rm -f ./launcher.sh;
+	rm -f ./nohup.out
+	rm -f /mnt/raid/tmp/SortedRun*
+	rm -f /mnt/raid/tmp/*.sort
+	rm -f $(NAME)
+
+re: fclean all
+
+
+
+# mpicxx *.c
+
+# mpirun/mpiexec ...	//will run X copies of the program in the current run-time environment, scheduling(by default) in a round-robin fashion by CPU slot.
+
+# SLIDE 5 Durastante
+# The Script
+# #!/bin/bash
+# #SBATCH --job-name=dascegliere
+# #SBATCH --mem=size[unis]
+# #SBATCH -n 10
+# #SBATCH --time=12:00:00
+# #SBATCH --nodelist=lista
+# #SBATCH --partition=ports
+# #ecc..
+# mpirun ...
diff --git a/SortingAlg/checkSort.exe b/SortingAlg/checkSort.exe
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..45a90c9
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diff --git a/SortingAlg/fileManage/creator.c b/SortingAlg/fileManage/creator.c
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..a4aeaa1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/SortingAlg/fileManage/creator.c
@@ -0,0 +1,65 @@
+
+#include <stdio.h>
+#include <stdlib.h>
+#include <stdint.h>
+#include <sys/time.h>
+
+//The number of numbers that populate the file
+#define TEST_SIZE 1
+#define BUF_SIZE 2097152//16 MegaBytes
+#define BUF_SIZE_HGB 67108864//512 MegaBytes
+#define BUF_SIZE_GB 134217728//1 GigaBytes
+#define BUF_SIZE_10GB 1342177280//10 GigaBytes
+
+/*
+Generate a file of given size filling it with random 8 bytes numbers.
+Return the number of microseconds needed for the generation and writing on disk.
+*/
+long long benchmark_generate_file(const char *pathname, unsigned int seed)
+{
+    struct timeval start, end;
+    unsigned int size = 0;
+    FILE *file;
+    int64_t *buffer;
+
+    srand(seed);
+    // if (access(pathname, F_OK) == 0)
+    //     return -2;//File already exist
+    if (size == 0)
+    {
+        printf("Insert a multiple of %d(%d MegaBytes) for the size of the target file:\n", BUF_SIZE_GB, BUF_SIZE_GB/131072);
+        while (1)
+        {
+            if (scanf("%u", &size) != 1)
+            {
+                printf("Insert a valid size for the file:\n");
+                while (getchar() != '\n');//Clear the input buffer to prevent an infinite loop
+            }
+            else
+                break;
+        }
+        printf("Future file dimension: (%d * %u) Mb\n",BUF_SIZE_GB/131072, size);
+    }
+    buffer = (int64_t*)malloc(BUF_SIZE_GB * sizeof(int64_t));
+    if (!buffer)
+        return -1;//Something went wrong
+    file = fopen(pathname, "wb");
+    if (!file){
+        free(buffer);
+        return -1;//Something went wrong
+    }
+    gettimeofday(&start, NULL);//Timer Start
+    for (unsigned int i = 0; i < size; i++)
+    {
+        for(unsigned int j=0; j < BUF_SIZE_GB; j++)
+        {
+            buffer[j] = ((int64_t)rand() << 32) | rand();
+            // printf("%ld\n", buffer[j]);
+        }
+        fwrite(buffer, sizeof(int64_t), BUF_SIZE_GB, file);
+    }
+    gettimeofday(&end, NULL);//Timer Stop
+    free(buffer);
+    fclose(file);
+    return (end.tv_sec - start.tv_sec) * 1000000LL + (end.tv_usec - start.tv_usec);
+}
diff --git a/SortingAlg/fileManage/main.c b/SortingAlg/fileManage/main.c
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..78f2300
--- /dev/null
+++ b/SortingAlg/fileManage/main.c
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+#include <stdio.h>
+
+long long benchmark_generate_file(const char *pathname, unsigned int seed);
+long long benchmark_reader_file(const char *pathname);
+int is_sorted(const char *pathname);
+void print_partial_file(const char *pathname, unsigned long long startOffset, unsigned long long endOffset);
+void print_all_file(const char *pathname);
+
+int main(int argc, char* argv[]){
+
+    printf("scrittura file %s: time(%lld microseconds)\n","testiamolo.bin",benchmark_generate_file("testiamolo.bin",42));//TODO cambiare il seed una volta completatp
+// printf("POI\n");
+//     printf("lettura file %s: time(%lld microseconds)\n","testiamolo.bin",benchmark_reader_file("testiamolo.bin"));
+// printf("POI\n");
+// printf("sono uguali? %d\n",is_sorted("testiamolo.bin"));
+// print_partial_file("testiamolo.bin",2,4);
+// printf("POI\n");
+// print_all_file("testiamolo.bin");
+    return 0;
+}
diff --git a/SortingAlg/fileManage/reader.c b/SortingAlg/fileManage/reader.c
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..8ff4744
--- /dev/null
+++ b/SortingAlg/fileManage/reader.c
@@ -0,0 +1,107 @@
+#include <stdio.h>
+#include <stdlib.h>
+#include <stdint.h>
+#include <sys/time.h>
+
+/*
+*/
+long long benchmark_reader_file(const char *pathname)
+{
+    struct timeval start, end;
+    unsigned long long startOffset = 0; // Start from the first number (0-based index)
+    unsigned long long endOffset = -1;   // Read up to the X number (exclusive), -1 in the last one because is unsigned
+    FILE *file;
+    int64_t num;
+
+    file = fopen(pathname, "rb");
+    if (!file)
+        return -1;//Something went wrong
+    fseek(file, startOffset * sizeof(int64_t), SEEK_SET);
+    gettimeofday(&start, NULL);//Timer Start
+    unsigned long long currentOffset = startOffset;
+    while (currentOffset < endOffset && fread(&num, sizeof(int64_t), 1, file) == 1)
+        currentOffset++;
+    gettimeofday(&end, NULL);//Timer Stop
+    fclose(file);
+    return (end.tv_sec - start.tv_sec) * 1000000LL + (end.tv_usec - start.tv_usec);
+}
+
+/*
+*/
+int is_sorted(const char *pathname)
+{
+    unsigned long long startOffset = 0; // Start from the first number (0-based index)
+    unsigned long long endOffset = -1;   // Read up to the X number (exclusive), -1 in the last one because is unsigned
+    FILE *file;
+    int64_t num;
+    long long int count=1;
+
+    file = fopen(pathname, "rb");
+    if (!file)
+        return -1;//Something went wrong
+    fseek(file, startOffset * sizeof(int64_t), SEEK_SET);
+    unsigned long long currentOffset = startOffset;
+    int64_t tmp;
+    fread(&tmp, sizeof(int64_t), 1, file); // Take first element(number) in the file
+    currentOffset++;
+    while (currentOffset < endOffset && fread(&num, sizeof(int64_t), 1, file) == 1)
+    {
+        count++;
+        if(tmp > num){
+            fclose(file);
+            // printf("non ordinati\n");
+            return 0;
+        }
+        tmp = num;
+        currentOffset++;
+    }
+    fclose(file);
+    // printf("%lld numeri ordinati",count);
+    return 1;
+}
+
+/*
+Start from the start number (0-based index), read up to the end number (exclusive).
+*/
+void print_partial_file(const char *pathname, unsigned long long startOffset, unsigned long long endOffset)
+{
+    FILE *file;
+    int64_t num;
+
+    file = fopen(pathname, "rb");
+    if (!file)
+        return;//Something went wrong
+    fseek(file, startOffset * sizeof(int64_t), SEEK_SET);
+    unsigned long long currentOffset = startOffset;
+    while (currentOffset < endOffset && fread(&num, sizeof(int64_t), 1, file) == 1)
+    {
+        printf("%lld\n", (long long)num);
+        currentOffset++;
+    }
+    fclose(file);
+    return;
+}
+
+/*
+*/
+void print_all_file(const char *pathname)
+{
+    unsigned long long startOffset = 0; // Start from the first number (0-based index)
+    unsigned long long endOffset = -1;   // Read up to the X number (exclusive), -1 in the last one because is unsigned
+    FILE *file;
+    int64_t num;
+
+    file = fopen(pathname, "rb");
+    if (!file)
+        return;//Something went wrong
+    fseek(file, startOffset * sizeof(int64_t), SEEK_SET);
+    unsigned long long currentOffset = startOffset;
+    while (currentOffset < endOffset && fread(&num, sizeof(int64_t), 1, file) == 1)
+    {
+        printf("%lld - ", (long long)num);
+        currentOffset++;
+    }
+    printf("EOF\n");
+    fclose(file);
+    return;
+}
diff --git a/SortingAlg/main.cpp b/SortingAlg/main.cpp
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..739c587
--- /dev/null
+++ b/SortingAlg/main.cpp
@@ -0,0 +1,357 @@
+#include <mpi.h>
+#include <fcntl.h>
+#include <dirent.h>
+#include <unistd.h>
+#include <sys/stat.h>
+#include <sys/types.h>
+#include <queue>
+#include <ctime>
+#include <string>
+#include <vector>
+#include <cstdio>
+#include <fstream>
+#include <cstdlib>
+#include <iostream>
+#include <algorithm>
+
+/*
+8-Byte numbers in 256KB = 32768
+8-Byte numbers in 1MB = 131072
+8-Byte numbers in 1GB = 134217728
+
+All the programm assume numbers as 64_bits.
+To visualize binary files in bash can be used:
+od -t d8 -A n binaryfile.bin                    #For in use format
+od -t d8 -A n --endian=little binaryfile.bin    #For little-endian format
+od -t d8 -A n --endian=big binaryfile.bin       #For big-endian format
+*/
+#define BUFFERSIZE 32768
+#define CACHENUM 130000
+#define RAMNUM 268435456
+#define ALLOW_BUFFER 1
+#define ALLOW_SNOWPLOW 1
+
+void sortRuns(unsigned long long fileSize, unsigned long long sliceSize, unsigned long long maxLoop, FILE* file, int id, int mpiRank, int mpiSize)
+{
+    unsigned long long startOffset, endOffset, currentOffset;    //The interval is [startOffset, endOffset)
+    double startTot, start, end;
+    int64_t num;
+    std::vector<int64_t> bigVect;
+    int64_t buffer[BUFFERSIZE];
+    bigVect.reserve(sliceSize);
+
+    startTot = MPI_Wtime();                            //Microsecond precision. Can't use time(), because each process will have a different "zero" time
+    start = MPI_Wtime();
+    for(unsigned long long l = 0; l < maxLoop; l++)     //Populate the vector with the values in the file
+    {
+        startOffset = sliceSize * (mpiRank + (mpiSize * l));
+        if (startOffset >= fileSize)
+            break;
+        endOffset = startOffset + sliceSize;
+        fseek(file, startOffset * sizeof(int64_t), SEEK_SET);
+        currentOffset = startOffset;
+        bigVect.clear();
+
+        if (ALLOW_BUFFER)      //Branch to test performance with and without buffer
+        {
+            while (currentOffset < endOffset)
+            {
+                unsigned long long elementsToRead = std::min(endOffset - currentOffset,  static_cast<unsigned long long>(BUFFERSIZE));      //It's important to check because if the difference between endOffset and startOffset is smaller than BUFFERSIZE we don't have to read further
+                unsigned long long elementsRead = fread(buffer, sizeof(int64_t), elementsToRead, file);
+
+                for (unsigned long long i = 0; i < elementsRead; ++i)
+                {
+                    bigVect.push_back(buffer[i]);
+                }
+                currentOffset += elementsRead;      //Increment currentOffset based on the number of elements read
+                if (elementsRead < BUFFERSIZE)      // Check if we have reached the end of the file
+                    break;
+            }
+        }
+        else
+        {
+            while (currentOffset < endOffset && fread(&num, sizeof(int64_t), 1, file) == 1)
+            {
+                bigVect.push_back(num);
+                currentOffset++;
+            }
+        }
+        end = MPI_Wtime();
+        std::cout << "   " << end-start << "s" << " => Time to read file from offset " << startOffset << " to " << endOffset << " in Process " << mpiRank+1  << "/" << mpiSize << " memory" << std::endl;
+        start = MPI_Wtime();
+
+        sort(bigVect.begin(), bigVect.end());
+
+        end = MPI_Wtime();
+        std::cout << "   " << end-start << "s" << " => Time to sort elements in Process " << mpiRank+1  << "/" << mpiSize << " memory" << std::endl;
+        start = MPI_Wtime();
+
+        std::string templateName = "/mnt/raid/tmp/SortedRun" + std::to_string(id) + "_XXXXXX";     //If  absolute path does not exist the temporary file will not be created
+        int tmpFile = mkstemp(&templateName[0]);     //Create a temporary file based on template
+        if (tmpFile == -1)
+        {
+            std::cout << "Error creating temporary file" << std::endl;
+            MPI_Abort(MPI_COMM_WORLD, 1);
+        }
+        for (unsigned long long i = 0; i < bigVect.size(); ++i)     //Write the ordered number in a temp file
+        {
+            if (ALLOW_BUFFER)      //Branch to test performance with and without buffer
+            {
+                buffer[i % BUFFERSIZE] = bigVect[i];
+                if ((i + 1) % BUFFERSIZE == 0 || i == bigVect.size() - 1)
+                {
+                    ssize_t tw = write(tmpFile, buffer, sizeof(int64_t) * ((i % BUFFERSIZE) + 1));
+                    if (tw == -1)
+                    {
+                        std::cout << "Error writing to file" << std::endl;
+                        MPI_Abort(MPI_COMM_WORLD, 1);
+                    }
+                }
+            }
+            else
+            {
+                int64_t elem = bigVect[i];
+                    ssize_t tw = write(tmpFile, &elem, sizeof(int64_t));
+                    if (tw == -1)
+                    {
+                        std::cout << "Error writing to file" << std::endl;
+                        MPI_Abort(MPI_COMM_WORLD, 1);
+                    }
+            }
+        }
+        off_t sz = lseek(tmpFile, 0, SEEK_END);
+        if (sz == 0)
+        {
+            if (close(tmpFile) == -1)
+            {
+                std::cout << "Error closing the file" << std::endl;
+                MPI_Abort(MPI_COMM_WORLD, 1);
+            }
+            if (unlink(&templateName[0]) == -1)
+            {
+                std::cout << "Error unlinking file" << std::endl;
+                MPI_Abort(MPI_COMM_WORLD, 1);
+            }
+        }
+        if (close(tmpFile) == -1)
+        {
+            std::cout << "Error closing the file" << std::endl;
+            MPI_Abort(MPI_COMM_WORLD, 1);
+        }
+        end = MPI_Wtime();
+        std::cout << "   " << end-start << "s" << " => Time to write '" << templateName << "' and fill it up with " << sz/8 << " sorted elements by Process " << mpiRank+1  << "/" << mpiSize << std::endl;
+        start = MPI_Wtime();
+    }
+    end = MPI_Wtime();
+    std::cout << end-startTot << "s" << " => Time function sortRuns() in Process " << mpiRank+1  << "/" << mpiSize << std::endl;
+}
+
+void snowPlowRuns(unsigned long long fileSize, unsigned long long sliceSize, unsigned long long maxLoop, FILE* file, int id, int mpiRank, int mpiSize)
+{
+    if (ALLOW_SNOWPLOW)
+        std::cout << "Can't compute files of size bigger then " << RAMNUM * mpiSize / 134217728 << "Gb with " << mpiSize << " processes (currently file is " << fileSize / 134217728 << "Gb)" << std::endl;
+    else
+    {
+        maxLoop = (fileSize / (RAMNUM * mpiSize)) + 1;
+        sortRuns(fileSize, RAMNUM, maxLoop, file, id, mpiRank, mpiSize);
+    }
+}
+
+void kMerge(const std::string &argFile, int id, int mpiRank, int mpiSize)
+{
+    std::string fileDir = "/mnt/raid/tmp/";
+    std::string pattern = "SortedRun" + std::to_string(id) + "_";
+    std::vector<int> fds;       //To store the file descriptor of each file to merge
+    std::vector<std::string> fns;     //To store the file name of each file to delete after merge
+    size_t lastSlash = argFile.find_last_of('/');
+    std::string nameOnly = (lastSlash != std::string::npos) ? argFile.substr(lastSlash + 1) : argFile;
+    std::string finalFile = "/mnt/raid/tmp/" + nameOnly + (ALLOW_BUFFER == 1 ? ".buf" : "") + ".sort";
+    double start, end;
+    int fileCount = 0;
+
+    DIR *dir = opendir(fileDir.c_str());
+    if (dir)
+    {
+        struct dirent *entry;
+        while ((entry = readdir(dir)) != nullptr)
+        {
+            if (entry->d_type == DT_REG)          //Check if it's a regular file
+            {
+                std::string filename = entry->d_name;
+                if (filename.find(pattern) != std::string::npos) //Check if the file name matches the pattern
+                {
+                    std::string tmpFile = fileDir + "/" + filename;
+                    int fd = open(tmpFile.c_str(), O_RDONLY);        //Open the file and save the file descriptor
+                    if (fd != -1)
+                    {
+                        fds.push_back(fd);
+                        fns.push_back(tmpFile);
+                        fileCount++;
+                    }
+                    else
+                        std::cout << "Error opening file '" << tmpFile << "' by Process " << mpiRank+1  << "/" << mpiSize << std::endl;
+                }
+            }
+        }
+        closedir(dir);
+    }
+    else
+    {
+        std::cout << "Error opening directory '" << fileDir << "' by Process " << mpiRank+1  << "/" << mpiSize << std::endl;
+        MPI_Abort(MPI_COMM_WORLD, 1);
+    }
+
+    int fdFinal = open(finalFile.c_str(), O_WRONLY | O_CREAT | O_EXCL, S_IRUSR | S_IWUSR);     //Open the file for writing only, creating it if it doesn't exist and not overwrite if it exists
+    if (fdFinal == -1)
+    {
+        std::cout << "Error opening or creating final file '" << finalFile << "' by Process " << mpiRank+1  << "/" << mpiSize << std::endl;
+        MPI_Abort(MPI_COMM_WORLD, 1);
+    }
+
+    std::cout << std::endl << "Starting the merge process for " << fileCount << " files" << std::endl << std::endl;
+    start = MPI_Wtime();
+
+    std::priority_queue<std::pair<int64_t, int>, std::vector<std::pair<int64_t, int>>, std::greater<std::pair<int64_t, int>>> minHeap;      //Creating a Min Heap using a priority queue
+    int64_t tmpValue;
+    for (int fd : fds)    //Populate the Min Heap with initial values from each file descriptor
+    {
+        if (read(fd, &tmpValue, sizeof(int64_t)) == sizeof(int64_t))
+            minHeap.push({tmpValue, fd});
+        else
+        {
+            std::cout << "Error reading from file descriptor by Process " << mpiRank+1  << "/" << mpiSize << std::endl;
+            MPI_Abort(MPI_COMM_WORLD, 1);
+        }
+    }
+
+    int tmpfd;
+    int64_t tmpValue2;
+    int64_t buffer[BUFFERSIZE];
+    unsigned long long i = 0;
+    while (!minHeap.empty())    //Write sorted elements to the temporary file
+    {
+        tmpValue = minHeap.top().first;
+        tmpfd = minHeap.top().second;
+        if (read(tmpfd, &tmpValue2, sizeof(int64_t)) == sizeof(int64_t)) //Read another integer from the same file descriptor
+        {
+            minHeap.pop();
+            minHeap.push({tmpValue2, tmpfd});
+        }
+        else    //If no more values can be read
+        {
+            minHeap.pop();
+            if (close(tmpfd) == -1)
+            {
+                std::cout << "Error closing the file descriptor by Process " << mpiRank+1  << "/" << mpiSize << std::endl;
+                MPI_Abort(MPI_COMM_WORLD, 1);
+            }
+        }
+        if (ALLOW_BUFFER)      //Branch to test performance with and without buffer
+        {
+            buffer[i % BUFFERSIZE] = tmpValue;
+            if ((i + 1) % BUFFERSIZE == 0 || minHeap.empty())
+            {
+                ssize_t tw = write(fdFinal, buffer, sizeof(int64_t) * ((i % BUFFERSIZE) + 1));
+                if (tw == -1)
+                {
+                    std::cout << "Error writing to file" << std::endl;
+                    MPI_Abort(MPI_COMM_WORLD, 1);
+                }
+            }
+            i++;
+        }
+        else
+        {
+            ssize_t tw = write(fdFinal, &tmpValue, sizeof(int64_t));
+            if (tw == -1)
+            {
+                std::cout << "Error writing to file" << std::endl;
+                MPI_Abort(MPI_COMM_WORLD, 1);
+            }
+        }        
+    }
+
+    for (const std::string &fn : fns)       //Remove all temporary files after merging them
+    {
+        if (unlink(&fn[0]) == -1)
+        {
+            std::cout << "Error unlinking file '" << fn << "' by Process " << mpiRank+1  << "/" << mpiSize << std::endl;
+            MPI_Abort(MPI_COMM_WORLD, 1);
+        }
+    }
+    end = MPI_Wtime();
+    std::cout << end-start << "s" << " => Time function kMerge() in Process " << mpiRank+1  << "/" << mpiSize << std::endl;
+    std::cout << std::endl << "Sorted file '" << finalFile << "'" << std::endl;
+}
+
+int main(int argc, char* argv[])
+{
+    MPI_Init(&argc, &argv);   //Initialize the MPI environment
+
+    double startGlobal, endGlobal;
+    int id, mpiSize, mpiRank;
+    MPI_Comm_size(MPI_COMM_WORLD, &mpiSize);    //Get the number of processes
+    MPI_Comm_rank(MPI_COMM_WORLD, &mpiRank);    //Get the number of process
+    if (mpiRank == 0)
+    {
+        startGlobal = MPI_Wtime();
+        std::srand(std::time(0));
+        id = std::rand() % 10000;                    //Get a random id number to recognize files of different executions
+    }
+    MPI_Bcast(&id, 1, MPI_INT, 0, MPI_COMM_WORLD);
+
+    if (argc != 2)
+    {
+        if (mpiRank == 0)
+        {
+            std::cout << "Usage: " << argv[0] << " <file_to_parse>" << std::endl;
+            std::cout << "It returns a file with extension '.sort' in the same directory of the not-parsed one. Make sure to have space before." << std::endl;
+            std::cout << "Use arguments in the make as ARGS=\"stuff\". Example 'make run ARGS=\"/path/to/file\"'." << std::endl;
+        }
+        MPI_Finalize(); //Clean up the MPI environment
+        return 0;
+    }
+
+    FILE *file;
+    unsigned long long fileSize, slices, sliceSize, maxLoop;
+    file = fopen(argv[1], "rb");        //Open the file in mode rb (read binary)
+    if(!file)
+    {
+        std::cout << "Error opening file: " << argv[1] << std::endl;
+        MPI_Abort(MPI_COMM_WORLD, 1);
+    }
+    fseek(file,0,SEEK_END);
+    fileSize = ftell(file) / 8;    //Size in bytes of the file, correspond to the number of numbers to parse. Each number is 8 bytes
+    if (mpiRank == 0)
+        std::cout << "Sorting file '" << argv[1] << "' of " << fileSize << " elements" << std::endl << std::endl;
+
+    if (fileSize < (CACHENUM * mpiSize))
+        slices = (fileSize / CACHENUM) + 1;
+    else if (fileSize < (RAMNUM * mpiSize))     //TODO add more granularity considering double RAM for snow plow technique
+        slices = (fileSize / RAMNUM) + 1;
+    else
+        slices = mpiSize + 1;
+    sliceSize = (fileSize / slices) + 1;        //Each process divides a number of 8-byte integers based on the size of the starting file, Attualmente dentro create Runs
+    maxLoop = (slices / mpiSize) + 1;
+    if (sliceSize > RAMNUM)
+        snowPlowRuns(fileSize, sliceSize, maxLoop, file, id, mpiRank, mpiSize);
+    else
+        sortRuns(fileSize, sliceSize, maxLoop, file, id, mpiRank, mpiSize);
+    fclose(file);
+
+    MPI_Barrier(MPI_COMM_WORLD);        //Blocks the caller until all processes in the communicator have called it
+
+    if(mpiRank==0)
+    {
+        kMerge(argv[1], id, mpiRank, mpiSize);
+
+        endGlobal = MPI_Wtime();
+        std::cout << (endGlobal-startGlobal)/60.0 << "min" << " => FULL EXECUTION TIME" << std::endl;
+        std::cout << std::endl << "To visualize binary files in bash can be used:" << std::endl;
+        std::cout << "od -t d8 -A n binaryfile.bin                    #For in use format" << std::endl;
+        std::cout << "od -t d8 -A n --endian=little binaryfile.bin    #For little-endian format" << std::endl;
+        std::cout << "od -t d8 -A n --endian=big binaryfile.bin       #For big-endian format" << std::endl;
+    }
+    MPI_Finalize(); //Clean up the MPI environment
+    return 0;
+}