By default, Surf computes the analytical models sequentially to share their
resources and update their actions. It is possible to run them in parallel,
using the \b surf/nthreads item (default value: 1). If you use a
-negative value, the amount of available cores is automatically
+negative or null value, the amount of available cores is automatically
detected and used instead.
Depending on the workload of the models and their complexity, you may get a
request to execute the user code in parallel. Several threads are
launched, each of them handling as much user contexts at each run. To
actiave this, set the \b contexts/nthreads item to the amount of
-cores that you have in your computer (or -1 to have the amount of cores
-auto-detected).
+cores that you have in your computer (or lower than 1 to have
+the amount of cores auto-detected).
Even if you asked several worker threads using the previous option,
you can request to start the parallel execution (and pay the
Please, use these two parameters (for comments) to make reproducible
simulations. For additional details about this and all tracing
-options, check See the \ref tracing_tracing_options "Tracing
-Configuration Options subsection".
+options, check See the \ref tracing_tracing_options.
\section options_smpi Configuring SMPI
Simulation time: 1e3 seconds.
\endverbatim
+\subsection options_model_smpi_detached Simulating MPI detached send
+
+(this configuration item is experimental and may change or disapear)
+
+This threshold specifies the size in bytes under which the send will return
+immediately. This is different from the threshold detailed in \ref options_model_network_asyncsend
+because the message is not effectively sent when the send is posted. SMPI still waits for the
+correspondant receive to be posted to perform the communication operation. This threshold can be set
+by changing the \b smpi/send_is_detached item. The default value is 65536.
+
+\subsection options_model_smpi_collectives Simulating MPI collective algorithms
+
+SMPI implements more than 100 different algorithms for MPI collective communication, to accurately
+simulate the behavior of most of the existing MPI libraries. The \b smpi/coll_selector item can be used
+ to use the decision logic of either OpenMPI or MPICH libraries (values: ompi or mpich, by default SMPI
+uses naive version of collective operations). Each collective operation can be manually selected with a
+\b smpi/collective_name:algo_name. Available algorithms are listed in \ref SMPI_collective_algorithms .
+
\section options_generic Configuring other aspects of SimGrid
\subsection options_generic_path XML file inclusion path
- \c smpi/display_timing: \ref options_smpi_timing
- \c smpi/cpu_threshold: \ref options_smpi_bench
- \c smpi/async_small_thres: \ref options_model_network_asyncsend
+- \c smpi/send_is_detached: \ref options_model_smpi_detached
+- \c smpi/coll_selector: \ref options_model_smpi_collectives
- \c path: \ref options_generic_path
- \c verbose-exit: \ref options_generic_exit