[Beowulf] Correct networking solution for 16-core nodes

Scott Atchley atchley at myri.com
Thu Aug 3 14:00:06 PDT 2006


>> Only quadrics is clear about its switch latency (probably
>> competitors have a worse one). It's 50 us for 1 card.
>
> We have clearly stated that the Mellanox switch is around 200 usec per
> hop.  Myricom's number is also well known.

Greg,

Don't you mean 200 nanosec? Which is about the same for the Myrinet  
cross-bar.

Scott


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