Inter- and intra-node message passing

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

Inter- and intra-node message passing

:* Monday, February 04, 2013 6:19 PM *To:* user@giraph.apache.org *Subject:* Re: Inter- and intra-node message passing Hi Alexandros, if two vertices are on the same worker, the message does not pass through the network but it is put directly in the mailbox of the destination vertex

Re: Inter- and intra-node message passing

-- *From:* Claudio Martella [claudio.marte...@gmail.com] *Sent:* Monday, February 04, 2013 6:19 PM *To:* user@giraph.apache.org *Subject:* Re: Inter- and intra-node message passing Hi Alexandros, if two vertices are on the same worker, the message does not pass