[Beowulf] mem consumption strategy for HPC apps?

[Robert G. Brown]

On Mon, 18 Apr 2005, Robert G. Brown wrote:

> The COST of this (in time) on (say) 100 BT is at least 100 usec per face
> to start talking to a node plust 0.5/10 MB/sec = 0.05 seconds, bandwidth
> dominated.  To do all six faces requires 0.3 seconds.  If you organize
> your code carefully you can probably find a pattern that does all of the
> bidirectional communications in parallel for all nodes in the SAME 0.3
> seconds.

... or rather half that (duh) as they're bidirectional.

> ... Unless I'm making egregious arithmetic errors again (very
> possible as longtime list humans know:-).


Obviously.

  rgb (again)

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