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14 (version 3.3.4, 20 September 2013).
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49 <a name="FFTW-MPI-Performance-Tips"></a>
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50 <p>
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51 Next: <a rel="next" accesskey="n" href="Combining-MPI-and-Threads.html#Combining-MPI-and-Threads">Combining MPI and Threads</a>,
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52 Previous: <a rel="previous" accesskey="p" href="Avoiding-MPI-Deadlocks.html#Avoiding-MPI-Deadlocks">Avoiding MPI Deadlocks</a>,
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57 <h3 class="section">6.10 FFTW MPI Performance Tips</h3>
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58
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59 <p>In this section, we collect a few tips on getting the best performance
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60 out of FFTW's MPI transforms.
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61
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62 <p>First, because of the 1d block distribution, FFTW's parallelization is
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63 currently limited by the size of the first dimension.
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64 (Multidimensional block distributions may be supported by a future
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65 version.) More generally, you should ideally arrange the dimensions so
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66 that FFTW can divide them equally among the processes. See <a href="Load-balancing.html#Load-balancing">Load balancing</a>.
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67 <a name="index-block-distribution-426"></a><a name="index-load-balancing-427"></a>
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68
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69 <p>Second, if it is not too inconvenient, you should consider working
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70 with transposed output for multidimensional plans, as this saves a
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71 considerable amount of communications. See <a href="Transposed-distributions.html#Transposed-distributions">Transposed distributions</a>.
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72 <a name="index-transpose-428"></a>
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73
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74 <p>Third, the fastest choices are generally either an in-place transform
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75 or an out-of-place transform with the <code>FFTW_DESTROY_INPUT</code> flag
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76 (which allows the input array to be used as scratch space). In-place
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77 is especially beneficial if the amount of data per process is large.
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79
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80 <p>Fourth, if you have multiple arrays to transform at once, rather than
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81 calling FFTW's MPI transforms several times it usually seems to be
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82 faster to interleave the data and use the advanced interface. (This
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83 groups the communications together instead of requiring separate
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