[Beowulf] cluster on Mellanox Infiniband (fwd)

Erwan Velu erwan at mandrakesoft.com
Wed Jun 30 00:50:02 PDT 2004


> We have a small (6 dual Xeon nodes, plus server) testbed cluster with 
> Mellanox Infiniband (switched, obviously).  
> So far, it's been really good. We tested the net performance with SKaMPI4 
> ( http://liinwww.ira.uka.de/~skampi/ ), the results
> should be in the  online db soon, if you want to check them out.
Which kernel did you choose (the OpenIB one or the mellanox/infinicon
one ) ?

Does some of the beowulf community tried both ? Did you find some
differences ?
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