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Foil 25 Comparisons of Different Distributions for Parallel ADI Solvers

From Spatial Differencing and ADI Solution of the NAS Benchmarks CPSP713 Case studies in Computational Science -- Spring Semester 1996. by Geoffrey C. Fox


1 The Naive Ratio of Communication in three distributions is:
2 64 : 16 : 12 for One : Two : Three Dimensional Decompositions
3 Three dimensions also has lower pipelining start-up effects
4 However -- certainly for one dimensional case -- it is better to redistribute data before sweep that crosses processor boundaries
  • Total Algorithm Communication cost 643 Units
  • For a redistribution that reduces algorithm communication cost to zero, one has redistribution cost that is proportional to 642 (Number of elements per processor) times a number which depends on communication network -- this number is loge64=6 for a hypercube

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