Hello Claudio, Thank you for your prompt answer! So, vertices that belong to the same worker thread do not require access to the network in order to exchange messages. However, what about different worker threads that reside on different cores of the same node?
Cheers, Alexandros ________________________________ 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 through the network but it is put directly in the mailbox of the destination vertex. Cheers, Claudio On Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 6:03 PM, Alexandros Daglis <alexandros.dag...@epfl.ch<mailto:alexandros.dag...@epfl.ch>> wrote: [X] 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 the network? I tried answering that question by going through the code, but I haven't seen any high-level difference in handling those two different cases. I would appreciate if someone could give me a hint on that. Thank you in advance. Alexandros -- Claudio Martella claudio.marte...@gmail.com<mailto:claudio.marte...@gmail.com>
