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Subject: Re: New intel 64 bit ?

Author: Jay Urbanski

Date: 20:37:47 07/05/03

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On July 04, 2003 at 23:33:46, Robert Hyatt wrote:

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>"way better than MPI".  Both use TCP/IP, just like PVM.  Except that MPI/OpenMP
>is designed for homogeneous clusters while PVM works with heterogeneous mixes.
>But for any of the above, the latency is caused by TCP/IP, _not_ the particular
>library being used.

With latency a concern I don't know why you'd use TCP/IP as the transport for
MPI when there are much faster ones available.

Even VIA over Ethernet would be an improvement.



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