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Foil 64 Features of Very Bad Naive Message Parallel Algorithm

From Fox Presentation Fall 1995 CPS615 Basic Simulation Track for Computational Science -- Fall Semester 95/96/97. by Nancy McCracken and Geoffrey C. Fox


The parallelism is perfect and both communication and computation are load balanced
However messages are small (as described 4 words - a 3 vector Xuse and mass M) and
communication » 4 tcomm(for small messages)
where estimate ~15 tfloat could be higher depending on how 1/ri,j3 calculated. As involves division and square root, it is expensive if done directly. Sometimes better to calculate by table lookup but this involves slow memory access
As typically tcomm/tfloat » 10 even for quite large messages (and worse for small ones), the above estimate suggests that communication dominates ...



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