No documentation yet. If you want to understand how it works and what exactly "highly optimized" means please look for the collectives papers on this page (http://www.netlib.org/utk/people/JackDongarra/ papers.htm). In few words, we have multiples algorithms and we tune them based on the network characteristics.

We have a home made tools that help us with that. It's far from complete, but it's enough for what we're doing right now. If you want, I can give you the source code and the documentation and you can play around with it.

Thanks,
  george.

On Oct 27, 2006, at 2:56 PM, Tony Ladd wrote:

George

Thanks for the info. When you say "highly optimized" do you algorithmically, tuning, or both? In particular I wonder if OMPI optimized collectives use
the divide and conquer strategy to maximize network bandwidth.

Sorry to be dense but I could not find documanetation on how to access the optimized collectives. I would be willing to fiddle with the parameters a bit by hand if I had some guidance as to how to set things and what I might
vary.

The optimization I was talking about (divide and conquer) would work better than the basic strategy regardless of network; only message size might have
some effect.

Thanks

Tony


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