Intel® MPI Benchmarks User Guide and Methodology Description

# About this Document

The objectives of the Intel® MPI Benchmarks User Guide are:

- Provide a concise set of benchmarks targeted at measuring the most important MPI functions.

- Set forth a precise benchmark methodology.

- Report bare timings rather than provide interpretation of the measured results. Show throughput values if and only if these values are well-defined.

## Intended Audience

This guide is intended for users who want to measure performance of MPI implementations.

## Notational Conventions

The following conventions are used in this document:

Style | Description
--- | ---
`This type style` | Commands, arguments, options, file names
`THIS_TYPE_STYLE` | Environment variables
<this type style> | Placeholders for actual values
`[ items ]` | Optional items
`{ item | item }` | Selectable items separated by vertical bar(s)