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But look at the latency term: 2(p-1) grows linearly in the number of participants. A recursive-doubling or tree scheme instead completes in p rounds:
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Equation 22 · AI Hardware & Semiconductors
The Network Is the Computer Again
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But look at the latency term: 2(p-1) grows linearly in the number of participants. A recursive-doubling or tree scheme instead completes in p rounds: