Newsgroups: comp.parallel.mpi
From: salo@mrjones.engr.sgi.com (Eric Salo)
Subject: Re: Timing problem
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc.  Mountain View, CA
Date: 3 Mar 1997 09:53:22 GMT
Message-ID: <5fe72i$b59@murrow.corp.sgi.com>

> 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 ?

It measures wall-clock time, starting from some implementation-defined
starting point.

Eric Salo    Silicon Graphics Inc.    salo@sgi.com