The Latency



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The Latency

Figure gif shows the transfer time between two nodes for small messages (up to 1024 bytes). This figure does not show the results for PVMe with PvmDataRaw, since they are the same as the results for PvmDataInPlace.

  
Figure: Latency on the IBM SP-2: PVM3, PVMe, MPL

We computed the latencies from Figure gif using a least squares interpolation. They are given in the following table.

The latency of pvm_psend-pvm_precv is roughly the same as that of mpc_bsend-mpc_brecv. For the same reason as on the CM-5 and the Paragon, PvmDataRaw gives a lower latency than PvmDataInPlace.



Jack Dongarra
Thu Jul 20 07:22:58 EDT 1995