Disable asynchronous message transfer?

[cheonruen]

Hi, I am new to Timely Dataflow

I am so impressed by the design philosophy of Timely Dataflow.

Currently, I am investigating the performance impact of its asynchronous execution engine on
for some BSP-based algorithms such as PageRank.

Is there any way for me to disable 'asynchronous booster' in the system so that I can check the performance benefit of it?

Thanks!

[frankmcsherry]

Hello.

Thanks for the nice words!

There is no easy way to make message transmission synchronous, without writing your operators to hold back the data themselves. The main point of timely dataflow (and dataflow models generally) is that the movement of data should drive the computation, rather than an external scheduler. So, 100% the system is designed for asynchronous message transfer, to the extent that there isn't a thing for it to be "synchronous" with.

Hope this helps!