Patent ID: 9164792
Filing Date: 2015-10-20
Classification: G06F,H04L

Abstract:
1. An apparatus for executing a gather operation on a parallel computer that includes a plurality of compute nodes, the apparatus comprising a computer processor, a computer memory operatively coupled to the computer processor, the computer memory having disposed within it computer program instructions that, when executed by the computer processor, cause the apparatus to carry out the steps of: dividing, by each task in an operational group of tasks of a compute node, a send buffer containing contribution data into a plurality of chunks of data, each chunk of data located at an offset within the send buffer; sending, by each task in the operational group of tasks, one chunk of data to a root task through a data communications thread for each chunk of data including instantiating a separate data communication thread for each chunk of data, wherein each chunk of data is sent in parallel from the compute node to the root task; receiving the chunks of data by the root task; and storing, by the root task, each chunk of data in a receive buffer of the root task in dependence upon the offset of each chunk of data within the send buffer; wherein dividing the send buffer containing contribution data into a plurality of chunks of data further comprises dividing the send buffer into the plurality of chunks of data in dependence upon a predetermined data type.