Dear Xavier,

30–40 times faster is indeed a very pleasant result 😊. The reason is that the PyNEST interface induced MPI communication for each of the weight updates, and if 64 ranks need to sync all the time, the going gets slow.

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Hans Ekkehard

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From: Xavier Otazu <xotazu@cvc.uab.cat>
Date: Monday, 12 February 2024 at 15:12
To: users@nest-simulator.org <users@nest-simulator.org>
Subject: [NEST Users] Re: Weights assignment error with mpirun

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A small clarification ... I always used 64 mpi processes to run my code (hence, the 30-40 speedup performace is because of your new code).

Xavier
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