[Beowulf] choosing a high-speed interconnect

[Robert G. Brown]

On Tue, 12 Oct 2004, Robert G. Brown wrote:

> you're already using gigE.  gigE's latency isn't great, but its
> bandwidth should be at least comparable (within a factor of 1-3) of the
> faster networks.

Correction (as Greg pointed out offline, very kindly):

My gross generalization is grossly incorrect -- you CAN get nearly an
order of magnitude improvement in bandwidth with Quadrics and IB.

I stand humbly corrected.

But you still should verify that bandwidth is your problem before
investing in more of it.

   rgb

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