diff --git a/pregelix/pregelix-core/src/main/java/edu/uci/ics/pregelix/core/util/PregelixHyracksIntegrationUtil.java b/pregelix/pregelix-core/src/main/java/edu/uci/ics/pregelix/core/util/PregelixHyracksIntegrationUtil.java
index 13a08b7..c584971 100644
--- a/pregelix/pregelix-core/src/main/java/edu/uci/ics/pregelix/core/util/PregelixHyracksIntegrationUtil.java
+++ b/pregelix/pregelix-core/src/main/java/edu/uci/ics/pregelix/core/util/PregelixHyracksIntegrationUtil.java
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@
 package edu.uci.ics.pregelix.core.util;
 
 import java.io.File;
+import java.util.Collections;
 import java.util.EnumSet;
 
 import org.apache.commons.io.FileUtils;
@@ -78,6 +79,7 @@
         ncConfig1.nodeId = NC1_ID;
         ncConfig1.ioDevices = "dev1,dev2";
         ncConfig1.appNCMainClass = NCApplicationEntryPoint.class.getName();
+        ncConfig1.appArgs = Collections.singletonList("65536");
         nc1 = new NodeControllerService(ncConfig1);
         nc1.start();
 
@@ -90,6 +92,7 @@
         ncConfig2.nodeId = NC2_ID;
         ncConfig2.appNCMainClass = NCApplicationEntryPoint.class.getName();
         ncConfig2.ioDevices = "dev3,dev4";
+        ncConfig2.appArgs = Collections.singletonList("65536");
         nc2 = new NodeControllerService(ncConfig2);
         nc2.start();
 
diff --git a/pregelix/pregelix-dataflow/src/main/java/edu/uci/ics/pregelix/dataflow/context/RuntimeContext.java b/pregelix/pregelix-dataflow/src/main/java/edu/uci/ics/pregelix/dataflow/context/RuntimeContext.java
index a8307d7..0f10b4d 100644
--- a/pregelix/pregelix-dataflow/src/main/java/edu/uci/ics/pregelix/dataflow/context/RuntimeContext.java
+++ b/pregelix/pregelix-dataflow/src/main/java/edu/uci/ics/pregelix/dataflow/context/RuntimeContext.java
@@ -66,8 +66,8 @@
         }
     };
 
-    public RuntimeContext(INCApplicationContext appCtx) {
-        int pageSize = 64 * 1024;
+    public RuntimeContext(INCApplicationContext appCtx, int vFrameSize) {
+        int pageSize = vFrameSize;
         long memSize = Runtime.getRuntime().maxMemory();
         long bufferSize = memSize / 4;
         int numPages = (int) (bufferSize / pageSize);
diff --git a/pregelix/pregelix-dist/src/main/resources/conf/cluster.properties b/pregelix/pregelix-dist/src/main/resources/conf/cluster.properties
index 79f42ed..82a7bfe 100644
--- a/pregelix/pregelix-dist/src/main/resources/conf/cluster.properties
+++ b/pregelix/pregelix-dist/src/main/resources/conf/cluster.properties
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@
 CC_CLIENTPORT=3099
 
 #The CC port for Hyracks cluster management
-CC_CLUSTERPORT=1099
+CC_CLUSTERPORT=4099
 
 #The CC port for REST communication
 CC_HTTPPORT=16001
@@ -42,6 +42,9 @@
 #The frame size of the internal dataflow engine
 FRAME_SIZE=65536
 
+#The frame size of the vertex storage, it should be larger than the largest vertex byte size
+VFRAME_SIZE=65536
+
 #The number of jobs whose logs are kept in-memory on the CC
 JOB_HISTORY_SIZE=0
 
diff --git a/pregelix/pregelix-dist/src/main/resources/scripts/startnc.sh b/pregelix/pregelix-dist/src/main/resources/scripts/startnc.sh
index f9b6a4e..1cba489 100644
--- a/pregelix/pregelix-dist/src/main/resources/scripts/startnc.sh
+++ b/pregelix/pregelix-dist/src/main/resources/scripts/startnc.sh
@@ -96,7 +96,7 @@
 cmd=( "${PREGELIX_HOME}/bin/pregelixnc" )
 cmd+=( -cc-host $CCHOST -cc-port $CC_CLUSTERPORT 
 	   -cluster-net-ip-address $IPADDR -data-ip-address $IPADDR -result-ip-address $IPADDR
-	   -node-id $NODEID -iodevices "${IO_DIRS}" -net-buffer-count 5 );
+	   -node-id $NODEID -iodevices "${IO_DIRS}" -net-buffer-count 5 -- ${VFRAME_SIZE});
 
 printf "\n\n\n********************************************\nStarting NC with command %s\n\n" "${cmd[*]}" >> "$NCLOGS_DIR/$NODEID.log"
 ${cmd[@]} >> "$NCLOGS_DIR/$NODEID.log" 2>&1 &
diff --git a/pregelix/pregelix-runtime/src/main/java/edu/uci/ics/pregelix/runtime/bootstrap/NCApplicationEntryPoint.java b/pregelix/pregelix-runtime/src/main/java/edu/uci/ics/pregelix/runtime/bootstrap/NCApplicationEntryPoint.java
index fe72d7a..8ca227a 100644
--- a/pregelix/pregelix-runtime/src/main/java/edu/uci/ics/pregelix/runtime/bootstrap/NCApplicationEntryPoint.java
+++ b/pregelix/pregelix-runtime/src/main/java/edu/uci/ics/pregelix/runtime/bootstrap/NCApplicationEntryPoint.java
@@ -23,7 +23,11 @@
 
     @Override
     public void start(INCApplicationContext ncAppCtx, String[] args) throws Exception {
-        rCtx = new RuntimeContext(ncAppCtx);
+        int vFrameSize = 65536;
+        if(args.length >0){
+            vFrameSize = Integer.parseInt(args[0]);
+        }
+        rCtx = new RuntimeContext(ncAppCtx, vFrameSize);
         ncAppCtx.setApplicationObject(rCtx);
     }