[Beowulf] Re: pci-e network adapters

[Greg Lindahl]

On Fri, Mar 24, 2006 at 07:02:53AM -0700, Maurice Hilarius wrote:

> Don't confuse bandwidth with latency.
> GbE has latency that is much greater than Myrinet, old or new.

Also a good example of why comparing peak bandwidth can be misleading:
at medium-sized messages, Myrinet has much higher bandwidth than GbE,
better than you'd guess looking at the peak bandwidths.

-- greg