@InProceedings{AvramovKnowles90, title = "{E}valuation of two systems for distributed message passing in transputer networks", author= "Avramov, N. N. and Knowles, A. E.", editor= "Zedan, Hussein S. M.", pages = "61--73", booktitle= "{OUG}-13: {R}eal-{T}ime {S}ystems with {T}ransputers", isbn= "90 5199 041 3", year= "1990", month= "sep", abstract= "While special chips for message transfer in multi-transputer machines do not yet exist, there are several software solutions which may be used. Dynamic link reconfiguration is fastest but requires additional switching hardware and a sophisticated common bus to control requests from all network nodes. Through-routing of messages via the network is slower but the method is applicable to any transputer network. This paper makes a comparison between two through-routing solutions for distributed message passing and shows how the parameters of a software implementation influence the communication throughput. Several conclusions about the improvement of particular through-routing software are made and the results of the experimental performance evaluation under different conditions are given." }