Execution Time (Continued)

• Time a loop of timer calls, actual start of timer is:

• This accounts for return from kernel, as gettimeofday() is a system call

• Some machines have hardware based timer that doesn’t require kernel traps

  • rtc() on the IBM SP2

• MPI has MPI_Wtime() which maps to the most efficient wall clock timer.

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