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Greg Lindahl lindahl at conservativecomputer.com
Fri Jul 19 08:59:28 PDT 2002


On Fri, Jul 19, 2002 at 09:25:44PM +0900, Iwao Makino wrote:

> Good memory bandwidth, perhaps i860 chipset base is good idea, but be careful,
> if you want to get
> PCI bus performance from them, DON'T USE i860 based board.
> 
> Here's good reason:

That reason is true; however, it doesn't seem to hurt the bandwidth
that Myrinet gets across the PCI. This was discussed at length on this
list a while ago.

http://www.conservativecomputer.com/myrinet/perf.html

-- greg



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