Asynchronous Message Passing

• Just send message, do not block sender

• What address does receiver put message in?

• Buffer Space?

• Credit Based messaging (sliding window)

  • preallocated buffers
  • sender decrements counter for each buffer used
  • sender increments counter for each acknowledgement
  • can only send if enough buffers (credit) available

• What if can’t send?

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