very high bandwidth, low latency manner?

[joachim]

Fully d'accord, but: comparing applications like MM5, GROMACS, ...
based on the interconnect and MPI library (on otherwise identical
systems) *would* make sense. At least for interconnect and MPI 
designers, and also for marketing (after carefully chosing the 
right cases...). And maybe for some buying decisions for smaller
"home built" systems.

We can discuss this on CAC'02 on monday. ;)

 regards, Joachim