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Foil 3 Communication Overhead
From CPS615-Lecture on Performance(end) and Computer Technologies(start) Delivered Lectures of CPS615 Basic Simulation Track for Computational Science -- 5 September 96. byGeoffrey C. Fox * Secs 223.2
Suppose communicating a single word - here a j value probably stored in a 4 byte word - take time tcomm