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Foil 45 Dynamic Data Mapping

From New CPS615HPF and Fortran90 Discussion Sept 17 96 Basic Simulation Track for Computational Science CPS615 -- Fall Semester 96. by Geoffrey C. Fox, Tom Haupt


1 One data mapping is often not appropriate for an entire program
  • Often one has phases in which different distributions are needed in different phases
  • e.g. in 2D FFT, one typically finds FFT of F(I,J) by first distributing so for each J all I (x values) are in same processor and then transform so that for each I all J are in same processor
  • This ensures no communication in FFT phases which is important as typically in distributed one dimensional FFT there is substantial overhead
2 ALLOCATABLE arrays can change size
3 REALIGN and REDISTRIBUTE are executable DISTRIBUTE and ALIGN commands but are only to be used if one declares arrays on which they act DYNAMIC
4 Naturally DYNAMIC arrays can be initialized by ALIGN or DISTRIBUTE statements

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