Could someone share their thoughts on this? Praveen
On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 5:16 PM, Praveen Sripati <[email protected]>wrote: > Hi, > > Here is an extract from the following document ( > http://cloudscale.com/images/bsp/BSPLIBPC.PDF) > > > Direct remote memory access (DRMA) is a convenient style of programming > for BSP computations which can be statically analysed in a straightforward > way. It is less convenient for computations where the volumes of data being > communicated in supersteps are irregular and data dependent, and where the > computation to be performed in a superstep depends on the quantity and form > of data received at the start of that superstep. A more appropriate style > of programming in such cases is bulk synchronous message passing (BSMP). > > 1) Why use DRMA for statically analysed computations? > > 2) All the examples till now had been using BSMP, can they be improved > them using DRMA? > > 3) Any other scenarios and examples where DRMA can be used over BSMP? > > Thanks, > Praveen >
