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78 <h3 class="section">6.10 FFTW MPI Performance Tips</h3>
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80 <p>In this section, we collect a few tips on getting the best performance
81 out of FFTW&rsquo;s MPI transforms.
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83 <p>First, because of the 1d block distribution, FFTW&rsquo;s parallelization is
84 currently limited by the size of the first dimension.
85 (Multidimensional block distributions may be supported by a future
86 version.) More generally, you should ideally arrange the dimensions so
87 that FFTW can divide them equally among the processes. See <a href="Load-balancing.html#Load-balancing">Load balancing</a>.
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92 <p>Second, if it is not too inconvenient, you should consider working
93 with transposed output for multidimensional plans, as this saves a
94 considerable amount of communications. See <a href="Transposed-distributions.html#Transposed-distributions">Transposed distributions</a>.
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98 <p>Third, the fastest choices are generally either an in-place transform
99 or an out-of-place transform with the <code>FFTW_DESTROY_INPUT</code> flag
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105 <p>Fourth, if you have multiple arrays to transform at once, rather than
106 calling FFTW&rsquo;s MPI transforms several times it usually seems to be
107 faster to interleave the data and use the advanced interface. (This
108 groups the communications together instead of requiring separate
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