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authorMohamad Chaarawi <chaarawi@hdfgroup.org>2014-08-22 15:39:14 (GMT)
committerMohamad Chaarawi <chaarawi@hdfgroup.org>2014-08-22 15:39:14 (GMT)
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[svn-r25543] merge 25509 & 25524 from trunk.
Optimize chunked dataset fill operation by making it collective. + add a workaround for new algorithm to work with ompi. Update RELEASE.txt with this new optimization.
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@@ -67,7 +67,12 @@ New Features
Parallel Library
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- -
+ - Optimize the chunk fill algorithm of datasets by writing out all
+ the chunk fill values collectively in a single MPI-IO
+ call. Previously it was done independently by rank 0
+ one block at a time. This should show a great performance
+ improvement when creating chunked datasets in parallel when the
+ chunk dimensions are fairly small.
Tools
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