Newsgroups: comp.parallel.pvm
From: Saghir Ahmed Shaikh <shaikh@ece.utexas.edu>
Subject: perf diff b/w spawing on single vs many machines
Organization: Univ. of Texas at Austin
Date: Wed, 28 Feb 1996 21:18:45 -0600
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I have developed a master slave simulator on Nwtwork od stations. using
pvm.

I wanted to measure the perf. 

It turned out  to be that if I spawn same no. of process on one
workstations, it is faster as compared to if i spawn the same no. of
processes in let's say 4-5 workstations. Now I wonder that is it beacuse

(i) data format changes
(ii) Or pvm deamon knows it that I have to sent a message to the same
machine so it takes less no. of time? 


Please suggest what is going on?

thanks my email is saghir@mail.utexas.edu

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peace, saghir
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Saghir A. Shaikh	       | Email: saghir@mail.utexas.edu	   |
Dept. of Elec. & Comp. Engr.   | The University of Texas at Austin | 
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