On Mar 21, 2012, at 12:14 , Nathan Hjelm wrote: > What: Change coll tuned default to pairwise exchange > > Why: The linear algorithm does not scale to any reasonable number of PEs > > When: Timeout in 2 days (Fri) > > Is there any reason the default should not be changed?
Nathan, I can see why people think the linear algorithm is bad. However I think it depends on the application communication pattern in the alltoallv. Do you have any numbers to back your claim? george.