From: Darren Porras Newsgroups: comp.parallel.pvm Subject: message size Date: Tue, 29 Jun 1999 11:30:19 -0400 Organization: The Internet Access Company, Inc. Message-Id: Reply-To: Darren Porras Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Xref: ukc comp.parallel.pvm:8524 Hello all! I have a couple of questions regarding message size. 1) How does the cache play a role in determining the optimium message size. How does this role differ between a shared memory machine versus a cluster? 2) What is the best way to set message sizes in order to reduce PVM (memory) latency for packing/unpacking? Thanks in advance, Darren Darren Porras (dporras@radionics.com) Image Guided Surgery RADIONICS 22 Terry Avenue Burlington, MA 01803 781-238-0600 (phone) 781-238-0606 (fax)