Communication Startup costs on Distributed Memory Machines

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From: H.V. Sreekantaswamy
Date: Tue, 25 Aug 1992 19:14

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I am interested in knowing typical values for communication startup
costs on various distributed memory machines such as CM-5, nCUBE,
Intel IPSC, Delta, Paragon, etc. What I mean by communication startup
cost is the time it takes to begin the actual message transmission
from the time the user program makes the appropriate function call.
This should include all the operating system or runtime system overheads
in initiating the communication in addition to hardware setup time.
I would appreciate if anyone can point to any papers/reports that 
discuss about these overheads or give the values for any system.

If there is sufficient interest, I will post a summary of replies.

Thanks,
--Swamy

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