On Sep 9, 2010, at 4:31 PM, Ashley Pittman wrote: >> What is the exact semantics of an asynchronous barrier, > > I'm not sure of the exact semantics but once you've got your head around the > concept it's fairly simple to understand how to use it, you call > MPI_IBarrier() and it gives you a handle you can test with MPI_Test() or > block for with MPI_Wait(). The tricky part comes in how many times you can > call MPI_IBarrier() on a communicator without waiting for the previous > barriers to complete but I haven't been following the discussion on this one > to know the specifics.
FWIW: here's a brief writeup of MPI_Ibarrier - http://blogs.cisco.com/ciscotalk/performance/comments/ibarrier/ -- Jeff Squyres jsquy...@cisco.com For corporate legal information go to: http://www.cisco.com/web/about/doing_business/legal/cri/