bsp_time(3)

NAME
bsp_time - high-precision real-time clock.

C SYNOPSIS
#include "bsp.h"

double bsp_time();

FORTRAN SYNOPSIS
INCLUDE 'fbsp.h'

DOUBLE PRECISION FUNCTION bsptime()

DESCRIPTION
The function bsp_time provides access to a high-precision clock. The accuracy of the timer is implementation specific. The function is a local operation of each process, and can be issued at any point after bsp_begin . The result of the timer is the time in seconds since bsp_begin . The semantics of bsp_time is as though there are bsp_nprocs timers, one per process. BSPlib does not impose any synchronisation requirements between the timers on different processes.

SEE ALSO
bsplib(3) ``BSPlib: The BSP Programming Library'' Jonathan M. D. Hill, Bill McColl, Dan C. Stefanescu, Mark W. Goudreau, Kevin Lang, Satish B. Rao, , Torsten Suel, Thanasis Tsantilas, and Rob Bisseling. Parallel Computing, to appear 1998. See http://www.bsp-worldwide.org for more details.

BUGS
Problems and bug reports should be mailed to bsplib-bugs@comlab.ox.ac.uk

AUTHORS
The Oxford BSP Toolset implementation of BSPlib was written by Jonathan.Hill@comlab.ox.ac.uk
http://www.comlab.ox.ac.uk/oucl/people/jonathan.hill.html