[Beowulf] Network considerations for new generation cheap beowulfcluster
Many of your questions may have already been answered in earlier discussions or in the FAQ. The search results page will indicate current discussions as well as past list serves, articles, and papers.
Eugen Leitl eugen at leitl.orgMon May 21 23:52:06 PDT 2007
- Previous message: [Beowulf] Network considerations for new generation cheap beowulfcluster
- Next message: [Beowulf] Network considerations for new generation cheap beowulfcluster
- Messages sorted by: [ date ] [ thread ] [ subject ] [ author ]
On Tue, May 22, 2007 at 12:38:13AM -0400, Mark Hahn wrote: > unless you're suggesting that games use collectives akin to MPI > broadcast/reduce/etc? I could see how a low-latency interconnect would help with a Second Life-like virtual reality, where most things happen server-side. On the other hand, given that low-end servers come with 4 GBit Ethernet NICs, just distributing the game world across a 2d torus would do as well, or better. Has anyone ever heard of a cluster wired in a diamond lattice (made from tetrahedrons) topology? -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org">leitl</a> http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiota.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE
- Previous message: [Beowulf] Network considerations for new generation cheap beowulfcluster
- Next message: [Beowulf] Network considerations for new generation cheap beowulfcluster
- Messages sorted by: [ date ] [ thread ] [ subject ] [ author ]
More information about the Beowulf mailing list