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Foil 55 Buffering Issues

From MPI Message Passing Interface Computational Science for Simulations -- Fall Semester 1998. by Geoffrey C. Fox, Nancy McCracken


Where does data go when you send it?
  • Multiple buffer copies, as in A)?
  • Straight to the network, as in B)?
B) is more efficient than A), but not always correct
B)
A)



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