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								Copyright (C) 2003 Matteo Frigo.
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								Next: <a href="Distributed_002dmemory-FFTW-with-MPI.html" accesskey="n" rel="next">Distributed-memory FFTW with MPI</a>, Previous: <a href="FFTW-Reference.html" accesskey="p" rel="prev">FFTW Reference</a>, Up: <a href="index.html" accesskey="u" rel="up">Top</a>   [<a href="index.html#SEC_Contents" title="Table of contents" rel="contents">Contents</a>][<a href="Concept-Index.html" title="Index" rel="index">Index</a>]</p>
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								<span id="Multi_002dthreaded-FFTW-1"></span><h2 class="chapter">5 Multi-threaded FFTW</h2>
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								<p>In this chapter we document the parallel FFTW routines for
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								shared-memory parallel hardware.  These routines, which support
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								parallel one- and multi-dimensional transforms of both real and
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								complex data, are the easiest way to take advantage of multiple
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								processors with FFTW.  They work just like the corresponding
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								uniprocessor transform routines, except that you have an extra
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								initialization routine to call, and there is a routine to set the
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								number of threads to employ.  Any program that uses the uniprocessor
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								FFTW can therefore be trivially modified to use the multi-threaded
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								FFTW.
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								<p>A shared-memory machine is one in which all CPUs can directly access
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								the same main memory, and such machines are now common due to the
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								ubiquity of multi-core CPUs.  FFTW’s multi-threading support allows
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								you to utilize these additional CPUs transparently from a single
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								program.  However, this does not necessarily translate into
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								performance gains—when multiple threads/CPUs are employed, there is
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								an overhead required for synchronization that may outweigh the
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								computatational parallelism.  Therefore, you can only benefit from
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								threads if your problem is sufficiently large.
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								<tr><td align="left" valign="top">• <a href="Installation-and-Supported-Hardware_002fSoftware.html" accesskey="1">Installation and Supported Hardware/Software</a></td><td>  </td><td align="left" valign="top">
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								<tr><td align="left" valign="top">• <a href="Usage-of-Multi_002dthreaded-FFTW.html" accesskey="2">Usage of Multi-threaded FFTW</a></td><td>  </td><td align="left" valign="top">
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								<tr><td align="left" valign="top">• <a href="How-Many-Threads-to-Use_003f.html" accesskey="3">How Many Threads to Use?</a></td><td>  </td><td align="left" valign="top">
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