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From: jet@karazm.math.uh.edu (J Eric Townsend)
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Subject: Re: Intel IPSC/860 performance ?
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Date: 24 Jun 91 18:25:48 GMT
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I can answer at least one of these... :-)

In article <1991Jun24.122022.19173@hubcap.clemson.edu> thomasf@ius3.ius.cs.cmu.edu (Thomas Fahringer) writes:
>1. the time it takes to transfer a message of n (varying) bytes from a
>   source to a destination node (single and multiple hops).


>3. communication primitives behavior for different message sizes and
>   different number of hops to go between source and destination node.

If message_size > 100 bytes, a "is there room to send this message"
message passing routine happens.  You can avoid this by using
the FORCE message type and writing code that insures the receiver always
has room.

>6. Is there another bboard containing more information about the
>   Intel IPSC/860 than this one.

This is probably the best place.  Also, I'm building an ftp site for
ipsc related stuff, so feel free to drop data into
karazm.math.uh.edu:pub/Incoming.  (fyi: This is a newsgroup, not a "bboard".)



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