The default is row-major natural ordering.
For global topologies, top = '', 'H', 'F', 'T', '1', '2', '3', '4', '5', '6' '7', '8', or '9'
In the MPI implementation of the BLACS for Parallel ESSL for AIX, the broadcast and global topology arguments are ignored. In all cases, the equivalent MPI collective communication subroutine is used.