[gmx-developers] non-contiguous memory access in Gromacs?

[David van der Spoel]

On Mon, 2004-03-15 at 03:00, MailList wrote:
> Hi, there,
>  
> I was just wondering if Gromacs have any non-contiguous memory access?
> For example, suppose it has a 2D array A[i,j], in C, it is row-wise
> access. Therefore, if the code needs to access the A[*,1] and A[*,3],
> then this is actually non-contiguous access.
>  
Yes this happens a lot. You can notice that performance improves when
you add cache memory.

> Thank you so much.
>  
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David.
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