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MPI_Wtime

What is the point of designing and implementing parallel algorithms? Of course, to save a little running time from the serial algorithm. so MPI_Wtime() function's man page will give:

Time in seconds since an arbitrary time in the past.
and the routine will return a double precision number. So to clock a block of code in MPI, just record the MPI_Wtime() value at the start, and subtract it from the time returned when the run finished.



J S 2002-08-14