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Subject: Re: Chess and Clusters

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 18:43:46 09/15/05

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On September 15, 2005 at 15:13:22, Joshua Shriver wrote:

>Has anyone tried writing an engine that uses PVM, MPI, or Mosix?
>
>If you had gigabit, or even fibre wire would the latency still be a problem?
>
>Josh


Yes.  gigabit ethernet is high bandwidth, but still long latency.  We have a new
128 node dual xeon cluster in the department using myrinet, which is lower
latency.  Our old cLAN switch was the lowest latency I have ever seen, but it
was pricey as all hell...  It was also not TCP/IP based...

• Cray and supercomputers (kinda long) Joshua Shriver 08:40:03 09/16/05
  • Re: Cray and supercomputers (kinda long) Vincent Diepeveen 09:11:50 09/20/05
    • Re: Cray and supercomputers (kinda long) Joshua Shriver 12:34:42 09/20/05
      • Re: Cray and supercomputers (kinda long) Robert Hyatt 13:38:51 09/20/05
        • Re: Cray and supercomputers (kinda long) Tony Werten 23:35:05 09/20/05
          • Re: Cray and supercomputers (kinda long) Robert Hyatt 07:44:37 09/21/05
        • Re: Cray and supercomputers (kinda long) Vincent Diepeveen 17:19:31 09/20/05
          • Re: Cray and supercomputers (kinda long) Robert Hyatt 19:49:20 09/20/05
  • Re: Cray and supercomputers (kinda long) Robert Hyatt 16:53:25 09/16/05
    • Re: Cray and supercomputers (kinda long) - Thanks! (nt) Joshua Shriver 07:43:36 09/19/05

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