Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
1-1-1997
Technical Report Number
PCS-TR97-303
Abstract
This paper extends an earlier out-of-core Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) method for a uniprocessor with the Parallel Disk Model (PDM) to use multiple processors. Four out-of-core multiprocessor methods are examined. Operationally, these methods differ in the size of "mini-butterfly" computed in memory and how the data are organized on the disks and in the distributed memory of the multiprocessor. The methods also perform differing amounts of I/O and communication. Two of them have the remarkable property that even though they are computing the FFT on a multiprocessor, all interprocessor communication occurs outside the mini-butterfly computations. Performance results on a small workstation cluster indicate that except for unusual combinations of problem size and memory size, the methods that do not perform interprocessor communication during the mini-butterfly computations require approximately 86% of the time of those that do. Moreover, the faster methods are much easier to implement.
Dartmouth Digital Commons Citation
Cormen, Thomas H.; Wegmann, Jake; and Nicol, David M., "Multiprocessor Out-of-Core FFTs with Distributed Memory and Parallel Disks" (1997). Computer Science Technical Report PCS-TR97-303. https://digitalcommons.dartmouth.edu/cs_tr/143
Comments
Revised version appeared in IOPADS '97.