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75 Next: <a href="Multi_002ddimensional-MPI-DFTs-of-Real-Data.html#Multi_002ddimensional-MPI-DFTs-of-Real-Data" accesskey="n" rel="next">Multi-dimensional MPI DFTs of Real Data</a>, Previous: <a href="2d-MPI-example.html#g_t2d-MPI-example" accesskey="p" rel="prev">2d MPI example</a>, Up: <a href="Distributed_002dmemory-FFTW-with-MPI.html#Distributed_002dmemory-FFTW-with-MPI" accesskey="u" rel="up">Distributed-memory FFTW with MPI</a> [<a href="index.html#SEC_Contents" title="Table of contents" rel="contents">Contents</a>][<a href="Concept-Index.html#Concept-Index" title="Index" rel="index">Index</a>]</p>
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79 <h3 class="section">6.4 MPI Data Distribution</h3>
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80 <a name="index-data-distribution-2"></a>
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82 <p>The most important concept to understand in using FFTW’s MPI interface
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83 is the data distribution. With a serial or multithreaded FFT, all of
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84 the inputs and outputs are stored as a single contiguous chunk of
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85 memory. With a distributed-memory FFT, the inputs and outputs are
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92 That is, process 0 will get rows 0 through 24, process 1 will get rows
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95 distribute it over 3 processes, then it is not evenly divisible so the
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96 different processes will have unequal chunks. FFTW’s default choice
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102 <p>FFTW provides several ‘<samp>fftw_mpi_local_size</samp>’ routines that you can
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104 process. In most cases, you should use the default block sizes picked
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106 example, with a 100 × 200 array on three processes, you can
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107 tell FFTW to use a block size of 40, which would assign 40 rows to
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108 processes 0 and 1, and 20 rows to process 2. FFTW’s default is to
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109 divide the data equally among the processes if possible, and as best
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110 it can otherwise. The rows are always assigned in “rank order,”
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111 i.e. process 0 gets the first block of rows, then process 1, and so
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112 on. (You can change this by using <code>MPI_Comm_split</code> to create a
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113 new communicator with re-ordered processes.) However, you should
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114 always call the ‘<samp>fftw_mpi_local_size</samp>’ routines, if possible,
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115 rather than trying to predict FFTW’s distribution choices.
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142 Next: <a href="Multi_002ddimensional-MPI-DFTs-of-Real-Data.html#Multi_002ddimensional-MPI-DFTs-of-Real-Data" accesskey="n" rel="next">Multi-dimensional MPI DFTs of Real Data</a>, Previous: <a href="2d-MPI-example.html#g_t2d-MPI-example" accesskey="p" rel="prev">2d MPI example</a>, Up: <a href="Distributed_002dmemory-FFTW-with-MPI.html#Distributed_002dmemory-FFTW-with-MPI" accesskey="u" rel="up">Distributed-memory FFTW with MPI</a> [<a href="index.html#SEC_Contents" title="Table of contents" rel="contents">Contents</a>][<a href="Concept-Index.html#Concept-Index" title="Index" rel="index">Index</a>]</p>
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