[Beowulf] Re: TOE on Linux

[Greg Lindahl]

On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 03:10:26PM -0400, Joe Landman wrote:

> StarCD.  Not big transfers, it doesn't move GB to its nodes.

By big I mean 100s of kbytes. I thought that this class of CDF
computation, which uses a lot of memory, also does quite big transfers
along the interfaces between the nodes.

I agree with you that real application benchmarks are a fine thing.
However, this one only has 2 datapoints for 1 application at 1 data
size+node count with a potentially bogus MPI implementation, so it's
bit hard to interpret.

> As Ammasso is out of business, this is sadly nothing we could really use 
> these days.

Never fear, there are a half-dozen vendors selling 10 gbit TOE cards.
And nary a benchmark to be found.

-- greg