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Subject: Re: new supercomputer!

Author: Frank E. Oldham

Date: 12:51:20 05/14/04

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On May 14, 2004 at 08:23:41, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>On May 13, 2004 at 23:58:43, Vincent Diepeveen wrote:
>
>>On May 13, 2004 at 12:46:29, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>>
>>>On May 13, 2004 at 07:47:32, Vincent Diepeveen wrote:
>>>
>>>Also you do know this is a cluster?  Not a NUMA box?
>>>
>>>Of course you did.
>>>
>>>I'm sure your program does _great_ on a message-passing cluster...
>>
>>May i remind you your message passing cluster you get there has a faster one way
>>pingpong latency than origin3800 at 512 processors....
>
>May I remind you that NUMA and clusters are _two_ different things???
>
>Or is it pointless???
>
>Clusters have _zero_ shared memory.
>
>

Apparently this machine will be based on the Cray X1 architecture -- this is
NUMA and supports a single-system-image (as well as various MPI types).  It also
uses traditional vector processors.

Frank



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