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51 Next: <a rel="next" accesskey="n" href="Avoiding-MPI-Deadlocks.html#Avoiding-MPI-Deadlocks">Avoiding MPI Deadlocks</a>,
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57 <h3 class="section">6.8 FFTW MPI Wisdom</h3>
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58
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59 <p><a name="index-wisdom-380"></a><a name="index-saving-plans-to-disk-381"></a>
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60 FFTW's “wisdom” facility (see <a href="Words-of-Wisdom_002dSaving-Plans.html#Words-of-Wisdom_002dSaving-Plans">Words of Wisdom-Saving Plans</a>) can
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61 be used to save MPI plans as well as to save uniprocessor plans.
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62 However, for MPI there are several unavoidable complications.
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63
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64 <p>First, the MPI standard does not guarantee that every process can
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65 perform file I/O (at least, not using C stdio routines)—only the
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66 process of rank <code>MPI_IO</code> can in general (unless <code>MPI_IO ==
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67 MPI_ANY_SOURCE</code>). (In practice, <code>MPI_IO</code> is commonly assumed to
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68 be zero, i.e. at least process 0 can perform I/O, since otherwise a
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69 single-process run could not perform I/O.) So, if we want to export
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70 the wisdom from a single process to a file, we must first export the
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71 wisdom to a string, then send it to process 0, then write it to a
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72 file.
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73 <a name="index-MPI_005fIO-382"></a><a name="index-MPI_005fANY_005fSOURCE-383"></a>
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74 Second, in principle we may want to have separate wisdom for every
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75 process, since in general the processes may run on different hardware
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76 even for a single MPI program. However, in practice FFTW's MPI code
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77 is designed for the case of homogeneous hardware (see <a href="Load-balancing.html#Load-balancing">Load balancing</a>), and in this case it is convenient to use the same wisdom
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78 for every process. Thus, we need a mechanism to synchronize the wisdom.
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79
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80 <p>To address both of these problems, FFTW provides the following two
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81 functions:
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82
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83 <pre class="example"> void fftw_mpi_broadcast_wisdom(MPI_Comm comm);
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84 void fftw_mpi_gather_wisdom(MPI_Comm comm);
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85 </pre>
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86 <p><a name="index-fftw_005fmpi_005fgather_005fwisdom-384"></a><a name="index-fftw_005fmpi_005fbroadcast_005fwisdom-385"></a>
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87 Given a communicator <code>comm</code>, <code>fftw_mpi_broadcast_wisdom</code>
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88 will broadcast the wisdom from process 0 to all other processes.
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89 Conversely, <code>fftw_mpi_gather_wisdom</code> will collect wisdom from all
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90 processes onto process 0. (If the plans created for the same problem
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91 by different processes are not the same, <code>fftw_mpi_gather_wisdom</code>
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92 will arbitrarily choose one of the plans.) Both of these functions
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93 may result in suboptimal plans for different processes if the
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94 processes are running on non-identical hardware. Both of these
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95 functions are <em>collective</em> calls, which means that they must be
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96 executed by all processes in the communicator.
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97 <a name="index-collective-function-386"></a>
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98 So, for example, a typical code snippet to import wisdom from a file
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99 and use it on all processes would be:
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100
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102 int rank;
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103 FILE *f;
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104
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105 fftw_mpi_init();
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106 MPI_Comm_rank(MPI_COMM_WORLD, &rank);
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107 if (rank == 0 && (f = fopen("mywisdom", "r"))) {
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108 fftw_import_wisdom_from_file(f);
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109 fclose(f);
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110 }
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111 fftw_mpi_broadcast_wisdom(MPI_COMM_WORLD);
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112 }
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113 </pre>
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114 <p>(Note that we must call <code>fftw_mpi_init</code> before importing any
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115 wisdom that might contain MPI plans.) Similarly, a typical code
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116 snippet to export wisdom from all processes to a file is:
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117 <a name="index-fftw_005fmpi_005finit-387"></a>
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119 int rank;
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120 FILE *f;
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121
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122 fftw_mpi_gather_wisdom(MPI_COMM_WORLD);
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123 MPI_Comm_rank(MPI_COMM_WORLD, &rank);
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124 if (rank == 0 && (f = fopen("mywisdom", "w"))) {
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125 fftw_export_wisdom_to_file(f);
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126 fclose(f);
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127 }
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128 }
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