Newsgroups: comp.parallel.mpi
From: Paolo Poletti <poletti@ce.unipr.it>
Subject: Timing problem
Organization: Cineca
Date: Mon, 03 Mar 1997 10:32:26 +0100
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Is the time returned by MPI_Wtime() the cpu-time used by the program
or is only the time elapsed since some time in the past ?

I'm trying to benchmarking my program, but if MPI_Wtime() does
not return only the effective time used, the running time of my
program will depend also on machines load.

Thanks



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