I would like to know the views of the cluster gurus on multi-rail clusters, esp, quad rail networks. Are quad rail networks practical to implement ( say InfiniBand, Quadrics, Myrinet, (GE, maybe not?)).<br><br>- What are the issues?
<br>- Are there any quad rail HPC clusters? (me and google couldn't find any)<br>- Are drivers an issue?<br>- Does the performance increase significantly to justify the cost and complexity? <br><br>The assumption is that the plan is to solve comm or BW crippled apps, on large SMP nodes (say 8+ CPUs).
<br><br>Note: I found just one line in a CLRC Daresbury lab presentation about quadrail Quadrics on Alpha (probably QsNet-1?) Any update on QsNet2/Eagle?<br><br>Thanks!<br>Greg<br>