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Re: [bgl-discuss] MPI failure, simplified



On Tue, Feb 21, 2006 at 11:05:37 -0600, Darius Buntinas wrote:

> it seems to me that they could 
> be less aggressive with sends and isends by implementing a rendezvous 
> protocol for larger messages, especially considering the BGL memory 
> constraints.

Guess what?  They claim they do.  The threshold between eager and
rendezvous is supposed to be somewhere in the proximity of 1K.

I guess IBM understands "rendezvous" differently than the rest of us...

Kamil

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