KLAT2

[Joel Jaeggli]

klat2 meets the traditional definition of beowulf... eg. a cluster of off
the shelf. with an interconnected private network... their switch
interconnect is interesting but is only one of several ways to approach
the problem (ie multi-dimenensional hypercubes using one or more quad port
cards per machine, channel bonding, multiple routes for difference
purposes and so on). it will unboudbtedly be a techinque that will be
used in other clusters. however with port density on switches climbing,
switch fabrics getting faster and switches getting cheaper overall (ie
$375 a port for gig-ether from dlink) or $900 a port for a switch with
32Gb/s backplane and up to 64 or mor ports and gig nics being about $300
ea gig-ether is only slightly more expensive than fast ether was when we
built our first cluster...



On Mon, 26 Jun 2000, Salim Mounir AlAoui wrote:

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> beowulf. It is hard to believe, does someone has any information about it?
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