On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 6:07 AM, Alexander Grayver
<agrayver at gfz-potsdam.de>wrote:

> I'm wondering what is the main idea behind making 
> XXXAssemblyBegin/**XXXAssemblyEnd
> separate routines?
> I've never used and seen any example where these routines don't follow
> each other.


You can overlap communication and computation by putting flops in between
these calls.

   Matt

-- 
> Regards,
> Alexander
>
>


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