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13 (version 3.2.1, 5 February 2009).
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57 <h2 class="chapter">5 Multi-threaded FFTW</h2>
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59 <p><a name="index-parallel-transform-316"></a>In this chapter we document the parallel FFTW routines for
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60 shared-memory parallel hardware. These routines, which support
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61 parallel one- and multi-dimensional transforms of both real and
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62 complex data, are the easiest way to take advantage of multiple
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63 processors with FFTW. They work just like the corresponding
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64 uniprocessor transform routines, except that you have an extra
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65 initialization routine to call, and there is a routine to set the
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66 number of threads to employ. Any program that uses the uniprocessor
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67 FFTW can therefore be trivially modified to use the multi-threaded
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68 FFTW.
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71 the same main memory, and such machines are now common due to the
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72 ubiquity of multi-core CPUs. FFTW's multi-threading support allows
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73 you to utilize these additional CPUs transparently from a single
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74 program. However, this does not necessarily translate into
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75 performance gains—when multiple threads/CPUs are employed, there is
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76 an overhead required for synchronization that may outweigh the
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77 computatational parallelism. Therefore, you can only benefit from
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78 threads if your problem is sufficiently large.
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