Author: Jay Urbanski
Date: 20:10:03 07/08/03
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On July 08, 2003 at 23:03:01, Jay Urbanski wrote: >On July 07, 2003 at 23:35:45, Robert Hyatt wrote: > >>>I have PVM running on our giganet switch, which is faster than myrinet. But, >>as I said, such clusters are _rare_. TCP/IP is the common cluster connection, >>for obvious reasons. And that's where the interest in clusters lies, not >>in how exotic a combination you can put together, but in what kind of >>performance you can extract from a common combination. > >Giganet is not faster than Myrinet - it's 1.25Gb/s compared to Myrinet's 2Gb/s >and it has higher latency. Giganet is also no longer being sold - it's a dead >technlogy. But such clusters aren't *that* rare - I count 57 Linux clusters >with fast (better than GigE) on the TOP500 list. > >Heck - if we had a decent MPI chess program available I bet any number of those >"exotic" clusters would sign up for an exhibition match with one of the >super-GM's. One thing they all have in common is that they *love* publicity. Assuming, of course, that such a program / hardware combination warranted such a match. :)
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