Newsgroups: comp.parallel.pvm
From: jmartin@bailer.cs.uiowa.edu (Jeffrey Martin)
Subject: Re: Performace issue with PVM based applications
Organization: The University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, USA
Date: 25 Jun 1996 14:16:53 -0500
Message-ID: <k6g7msv3d96.fsf@bailer.cs.uiowa.edu>


Also try spawning on various numbers of hosts to see how the number of
machines affect the speed of execution. If it increases, peaks out,
then declines, then communication is your bottleneck (as Mark said).
You may also find that some other number than 5 is the optimum.

Jeff

