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In this paper we describe the implementation of the gather and allgather collectives on QsNetII. Results from a cluster of 980 4-CPU nodes show good latencies, bandwidths and scaling, with a 3920 process, 8-byte, gather completing in 88 microsecs.
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Roweth, D., Addison, D. (2005). Optimised Gather Collectives on QsNetII . In: Di Martino, B., Kranzlmüller, D., Dongarra, J. (eds) Recent Advances in Parallel Virtual Machine and Message Passing Interface. EuroPVM/MPI 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3666. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11557265_52
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