Message-Passing Model

- the sender decides what data to communicate and sends it to a specific destination (i.e. you make a phone call to another office);
- the data is only fully communicated after the destination worker decides to receive the data (i.e. the worker in the other office picks up the phone);
- there are no time-outs: if a worker decides they need to receive data, they wait by the phone for it to ring; if it never rings, they wait forever!
Things to consider
When parallelising a calculation in the message-passing model, the most important questions are:- how are the variables (e.g. the old and new roads) divided up among workers?
- when do workers need to send messages to each other?
- how do we minimise the number of messages that are sent?
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