ServerWorks chipset

He Ding eric at evl.uic.edu
Wed Sep 20 15:10:35 PDT 2000


How is Serverworks chipset comparing to Intel i840 chipset, which has
64-bit 66MHz PCI too?  Did Myricom has some claim on this?  Thanks.

Eric He (Ding He)
PhD student
Electronic Visualization Laboratory
University of Illinois at Chicago 
(312) 996-3002



On Wed, 20 Sep 2000, Greg Lindahl wrote:

> > Since I have
> > purchase Myrinet, the 64-bit 66 MHz PIC bus mastering slots
> > are very attractive.
> 
> If you ask Myricom, the ServerWorks chipset is currently their recommended
> Intel chipset. It achieves excellent performance with Myrinet2000, peaking
> out at 250 megabytes per second for an MPI program, and getting 1/2 that
> bandwidth at a message size of 2 kbytes (!)
> 
> -- g
> 
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