Inter- and intra-node message passing

2013-02-04 Thread Alexandros Daglis
Hello everybody, I was wondering about the message-passing protocol: is there a difference if two communicating threads are on the same node, as opposed to being on different ones? Is communication achieved through memory whenever the threads are local to the node, or does it always default to

Re: Breadth-first search

2012-12-12 Thread Alexandros Daglis
Dear Avery, Regarding this decision about resource allocation, do you have a methodology or a rule of thumb that helps you decide which setting is expected to perform well? For example, with a given input (number of graph vertices), can you estimate what number of workers and how much memory per

Re: What a worker really is and other interesting runtime information

2012-11-29 Thread Alexandros Daglis
need to set the number of partitions to use single each thread works on a single partition at a time. Try -Dhash.userPartitionCount=number of threads On 11/28/12 5:29 AM, Alexandros Daglis wrote: Dear Avery, I followed your advice, but the application seems to be totally thread-count

Re: What a worker really is and other interesting runtime information

2012-11-29 Thread Alexandros Daglis
this be some other value? Does anyone have any simple configuration suggestions that will help me tune Giraph to my problem? ** ** Thanks! ** ** Bence ** ** *From:* Alexandros Daglis [mailto:alexandros.dag...@epfl.ch] *Sent:* Thursday, November 29, 2012 6:19 AM *To:* user