Re: [Boost-mpi] Point 2 point free collectives.

Subject: Re: [Boost-mpi] Point 2 point free collectives.
From: alainm (alain.miniussi_at_[hidden])
Date: 2016-10-25 17:22:59

On 25/10/2016 22:18, MM wrote:
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> I'm sorry I didn't follow the discussion, but how are the scatterv and 
> gatherv you're proposing in your branch different from the ones 
> already in latest boost ?
In the latest boost, when dealing with a type with non MPI datatype, 
each slot of the data transmitted through gatherv and scatterv is 
serialized and sent individually (through packed_archive_send/recv) 
through MPI_Send/Recv. (two pairs of those actually, one to send the 
size and one to send the archive).

The proposed implementation does not use MPI_Send/Recv but only global 
communication primitives. For a scatterv for example, the root process 
serialize all the data in a single archive while keeping track of each 
process data size, Dispatch those sizes through a single MPI_Scatter, 
and dispatch the archive as a byte array through a MPI_Scatterv.

Scatter and scatterv share the same implementation basically, since a 
non MPI datatype does not usually have a fixed size anyway.
gather/gatherv as a similar implementation, but symmetrical.
So it basically replaces point to point communications with global 
communication.
The usefulness of the whole thing is based on the hypothesis that 
globals have a benefit other point to point (some clusters actually have 
a different network for globals).
Also, it's expected to ease the non blocking versions of globals.

Alain

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