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| <span id="FFTW-MPI-Performance-Tips-1"></span><h3 class="section">6.10 FFTW MPI Performance Tips</h3>
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| <p>In this section, we collect a few tips on getting the best performance
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| out of FFTW’s MPI transforms.
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| <p>First, because of the 1d block distribution, FFTW’s parallelization is
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| currently limited by the size of the first dimension.
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| (Multidimensional block distributions may be supported by a future
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| version.) More generally, you should ideally arrange the dimensions so
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| that FFTW can divide them equally among the processes. See <a href="Load-balancing.html">Load balancing</a>.
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| <p>Second, if it is not too inconvenient, you should consider working
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| with transposed output for multidimensional plans, as this saves a
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| considerable amount of communications.  See <a href="Transposed-distributions.html">Transposed distributions</a>.
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| <p>Third, the fastest choices are generally either an in-place transform
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| or an out-of-place transform with the <code>FFTW_DESTROY_INPUT</code> flag
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| (which allows the input array to be used as scratch space).  In-place
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| is especially beneficial if the amount of data per process is large.
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| <span id="index-FFTW_005fDESTROY_005fINPUT-1"></span>
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| <p>Fourth, if you have multiple arrays to transform at once, rather than
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| calling FFTW’s MPI transforms several times it usually seems to be
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| faster to interleave the data and use the advanced interface.  (This
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| groups the communications together instead of requiring separate
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