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Foil 32 Buffering Issues

From Designing and Building Parallel Programs 3: MPI Message Passing System DoD Modernization Tutorial -- 1995-1998. by Ian Foster, Gina Goff, Ehtesham Hayder, Chuck Koelbel


Where does data go when you send it?
  • Multiple buffer copies, as on left?
  • Straight to the network, as on right?
Right is more efficient, but not always correct



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