Georges Markomanolis wrote:
Dear all,
Hi again, after using MPI_Ssend seems to be what I was looking for but
I would like to know more about MPI_Send.
For example sending 1 byte with MPI_Send it takes 8.69 microsec but
with MPI_Ssend it takes 152.9 microsec. I understand the difference
but it seems that from one message's size and after their difference
is not so big like trying for 518400 bytes where it needs 3515.78
microsec with MPI_Send and 3584.1 microsec with MPI_Ssend. So has is
there any rule to figure out (of course it depends on the hardware)
the threshold that after this size the difference between the timings
of MPI_Send and MPI_Send is not so big or at least how to find it for
my hardware?
Most MPI implementations choose one strategy for passing short messages
(sender sends, MPI implementation buffers the message, receiver
receives) and long messages (sender alerts receiver, receiver replies,
then sender and receiver coordinate the transfer). The first style is
"eager" (sender sends eagerly without waiting for receiver to
coordinate) while the second style is "rendezvous" (sender and receiver
meet). The message size at which the crossover occurs can be determined
or changed. In OMPI, it depends on the BTL. E.g., try "ompi_info -a |
grep eager".
Try the OMPI FAQ at http://www.open-mpi.org/faq/ and look at the
"Tuning" categories.
