Newsgroups: comp.parallel.mpi
From: cattoni@irst.itc.it (Roldano Cattoni)
Subject: msg size for the direct mode of MPI LAM
Organization: Istituto Trentino di Cultura - IRST
Date: 11 Apr 1996 10:11:25 GMT
Message-ID: <CATTONI.96Apr11121125@mamba.itc.it>

LAM 6.0 in direct mode (-c2c option) is very efficient.

How are large messages (for example 64 Kb) managed? I suppose they are
divided into a sequence of smaller messages, but I wonder what the
best packet size could be.

Many thanks in advance,

	Roldano Cattoni


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