Newsgroups: comp.parallel.pvm
From: jayasim@cis.ohio-state.edu (D Jayasimha)
Subject: Messaging Overheads
Organization: The Ohio State University, Department of Computer and nformation Science
Date: 7 Oct 1995 19:41:01 -0400
Message-ID: <45736dINNdbn@maine.cis.ohio-state.edu>

I am interested in knowing if there have been studies on messaging
overheads in non-custom (by which I mean PVM available over the Internet)
and custom varieties of PVM- for versions of PVM 3.

For example, 
What is the idealized message start-up time for pvm_send, i.e., the time 
between an invocation in the user program and the message's actual launch 
into the underlying network on a) different architectures with non-custom 
PVM b) on different (multi)processor architectures with customized PVM?

Thanks,
jayasimha
jayasim@cis.ohio-state.edu
Computer and Information Science
The Ohio State University
Columbus OH 43210.

