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| Next: <a href="Calling-FFTW-from-Modern-Fortran.html" accesskey="n" rel="next">Calling FFTW from Modern Fortran</a>, Previous: <a href="Multi_002dthreaded-FFTW.html" accesskey="p" rel="prev">Multi-threaded FFTW</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="Distributed_002dmemory-FFTW-with-MPI-1"></span><h2 class="chapter">6 Distributed-memory FFTW with MPI</h2>
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| <span id="index-MPI"></span>
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| <span id="index-parallel-transform-1"></span>
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| <p>In this chapter we document the parallel FFTW routines for parallel
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| systems supporting the MPI message-passing interface.  Unlike the
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| shared-memory threads described in the previous chapter, MPI allows
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| you to use <em>distributed-memory</em> parallelism, where each CPU has
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| its own separate memory, and which can scale up to clusters of many
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| thousands of processors.  This capability comes at a price, however:
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| each process only stores a <em>portion</em> of the data to be
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| transformed, which means that the data structures and
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| programming-interface are quite different from the serial or threads
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| versions of FFTW.
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| <span id="index-data-distribution"></span>
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| <p>Distributed-memory parallelism is especially useful when you are
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| transforming arrays so large that they do not fit into the memory of a
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| single processor.  The storage per-process required by FFTW’s MPI
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| routines is proportional to the total array size divided by the number
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| of processes.  Conversely, distributed-memory parallelism can easily
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| pose an unacceptably high communications overhead for small problems;
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| the threshold problem size for which parallelism becomes advantageous
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| will depend on the precise problem you are interested in, your
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| hardware, and your MPI implementation.
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| <p>A note on terminology: in MPI, you divide the data among a set of
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| “processes” which each run in their own memory address space.
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| Generally, each process runs on a different physical processor, but
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| this is not required.  A set of processes in MPI is described by an
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| opaque data structure called a “communicator,” the most common of
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| which is the predefined communicator <code>MPI_COMM_WORLD</code> which
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| refers to <em>all</em> processes.  For more information on these and
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| other concepts common to all MPI programs, we refer the reader to the
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| documentation at <a href="http://www.mcs.anl.gov/research/projects/mpi/">the MPI home
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| <p>We assume in this chapter that the reader is familiar with the usage
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| of the serial (uniprocessor) FFTW, and focus only on the concepts new
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| to the MPI interface.
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