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prov/shm: Add implementation for collective building blocks

shefty opened this issue · comments

Analyze adding support for the following collective operations:

  • broadcast
  • scatter
  • gather

These can be used as building blocks for other collective operations. These are being called out specifically for the shared memory provider as it may be able to provide a more efficient implementation than point to point communication.

For example, broadcast can be implemented by placing or copying the data into a buffer accessible to all peers, then notifying the peers to pull the data. Scatter and gather can use a similar scheme; even though, the peers will only access a portion of the data.