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Joachim Worringen joachim at ccrl-nece.de
Tue Sep 24 14:18:36 PDT 2002


Richard Walsh:
> Whoops ... down is not alway bad ... in my prior note
> I meant gets worse (grows larger quickly).
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> >SCI's switchless latency drops off steeply as you scale to largish
> >(> 128 nodes) sizes ...  you can of course use SCI switches to reduce

Do you have an example for this? AFAIK, the hop latency for each SCI node 
in-between is a few ns, and with a 128 node cluster in 3D topology, you would 
never pass more than about 15 nodes. Numbers from a real, busy cluster would 
be helpful.

 Joachim

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