Are you:
	Tired of send & receive?
	Tired of 100us of overhead per message?
If yes, you should try Active Messages on the CM-5!!
	:^) :^) :^) :^) :^) :^) :^) :^) :^)

Seriously: we've developped a new communication substrate based on Active
Messages that provides more flexibility than send&receive and that doesn't
require the buffering which makes send&receive slow. Short messages can be
sent in 1.4us and received in 1.6us on the CM-5 (down from about 80us with
TMC's current message passing library).  Implementing remote fetches and
other shared-memory style operations is real easy.

If you have access to a CM-5 you can ftp the sources from sprite.berkeley.edu
in tam/cmam-2-4.tar.Z and try it out. A ``getting-started'' document and man
pages are included. Active Messages were presented at this year's Int'l
Symposium on Computer Architecture and a postscript copy of the paper is
included in the distribution (available separately in tam/isca92.ps).

If you have questions, comments or problems, please send me e-mail.

			Thorsten von Eicken
			tve@cs.berkeley.edu
			(510) 642-8299

			Computer Science Div. --- EECS
			University of California at Berkeley
			Berkeley, CA 94720