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57 <h2 class="chapter">6 Distributed-memory FFTW with MPI</h2>
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60 <a name="index-parallel-transform-345"></a>In this chapter we document the parallel FFTW routines for parallel
61 systems supporting the MPI message-passing interface. Unlike the
62 shared-memory threads described in the previous chapter, MPI allows
63 you to use <em>distributed-memory</em> parallelism, where each CPU has
64 its own separate memory, and which can scale up to clusters of many
65 thousands of processors. This capability comes at a price, however:
66 each process only stores a <em>portion</em> of the data to be
67 transformed, which means that the data structures and
68 programming-interface are quite different from the serial or threads
69 versions of FFTW.
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72 <p>Distributed-memory parallelism is especially useful when you are
73 transforming arrays so large that they do not fit into the memory of a
74 single processor. The storage per-process required by FFTW's MPI
75 routines is proportional to the total array size divided by the number
76 of processes. Conversely, distributed-memory parallelism can easily
77 pose an unacceptably high communications overhead for small problems;
78 the threshold problem size for which parallelism becomes advantageous
79 will depend on the precise problem you are interested in, your
80 hardware, and your MPI implementation.
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82 <p>A note on terminology: in MPI, you divide the data among a set of
83 &ldquo;processes&rdquo; which each run in their own memory address space.
84 Generally, each process runs on a different physical processor, but
85 this is not required. A set of processes in MPI is described by an
86 opaque data structure called a &ldquo;communicator,&rdquo; the most common of
87 which is the predefined communicator <code>MPI_COMM_WORLD</code> which
88 refers to <em>all</em> processes. For more information on these and
89 other concepts common to all MPI programs, we refer the reader to the
90 documentation at <a href="http://www.mcs.anl.gov/research/projects/mpi/">the MPI home page</a>.
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94 of the serial (uniprocessor) FFTW, and focus only on the concepts new
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