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document that the application can prune the for loops

Samuel Thibault 12 years ago
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@@ -479,6 +479,11 @@ each task, only the MPI node which owns the data being written to (here,
 @code{data_handles[x][y]}) will actually run the task. The other MPI nodes will
 automatically send the required data.
 
+This can be a concern with a growing number of nodes. To avoid this, the
+application can prune the task for loops according to the data distribution,
+so as to only submit tasks on nodes which have to care about them (either to
+execute them, or to send the required data).
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 @node MPI Collective Operations
 @section MPI Collective Operations