In the BSP class's subclass we can send messages to other peers by name using
peer.send(peerName,message)
but these peerNames are system generated and it seems there is no way to change
these names. Like in the Graph api, I can set up the ID of the vertex and in
compute(), I can send a message to a specific vertex if I know it's ID. In BSP
api there seems to be no facility for this. Is it possible using BSP api to map
the system generated names of bsp peers like "local:0" etc. to some ID of the
peer that is provided in the setup?
The use-case is something like this. I know how many peers I am going to create
and I would like to assign them IDs. Inside the bsp() method I would like to
send messages to only specific set of peers and I would know which ones I am
going to send messages to, because I'll have their IDs. With system generated
IDs I can not distinguish between peers. This is something that can be easily
achieved by the graph API, but I am trying to understand if lack of this
facility is a design decision in BSP api.
Thanks
Anveshi
