[Beowulf] Network considerations for new generation cheap beowulfcluster

[Patrick Geoffray]

Hi Jim,

Jim Lux wrote:
> At 10:52 AM 5/23/2007, Peter St. John wrote:
>> But oh and Jim if you recall any papers about this I could read that 
>> would be "Jim" Dandy.

> I seem to recall that if you google hypercube and intel, you'll turn up 
> some of the papers that were written early on.  The guys who started 
> with the hypercube interconnect were at CalTech, as I recall, and spun 
> off to form a supercomputer company embodying that, which Intel also 
> adopted.

There is a nice historical section about it on Netlib:
http://www.netlib.org/utk/lsi/pcwLSI/text/node13.html

Patrick