<div dir="ltr"><div>Dear all,<br><br>I am putting together a lecture on collective communication and was perusing the MPICH 3.0.3 source code when I noticed that the only references for the long-message implementations of Reduce and Broadcast seem to be "Rabenseifer's algorithm" for Reduce, with a pointer to the following webpage and corresponding 1997 publication:<br>
<a href="https://fs.hlrs.de/projects/par/mpi//myreduce.html">https://fs.hlrs.de/projects/par/mpi//myreduce.html</a><br></div><div><br>This seems to be a bit strange to me, since this is essentially the Scatter composed with Allgather approach to Broadcast implemented in reverse, which was proposed by Fox, Furmanski, and Walker nearly a decade earlier in "Optimal matrix algorithms on homogeneous hypercube" (see Figs. 1 and 2, where the term "expand" is used instead of the modern "Allgather"):<br>
<a href="http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=63125">http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=63125</a><br><br></div><div>It would seem to me that, if the source code is to include academic references, it would make sense to also cite this (much earlier) paper.<br>
<br></div><div>Best Regards,<br>Jack Poulson<br></div></div>