[Beowulf] Gigabit PCI-E NIC

Mattijs Janssens m.janssens at opencfd.co.uk
Mon Sep 11 02:25:54 PDT 2006


On Friday 08 September 2006 22:04, Marcelino Mata wrote:
> NIC?  I believe Intel GB NIC is already in the kernel and is a
> "favorite" amount clusters so I probably could not go wrong with Intel.

The only point that I can add to this discussion is that the Broadcom chip 
wasn't supported before by GAMMA (still the lowest latency Gigabit comms 
protocol). Seems to have changed now though 
(http://www.disi.unige.it/project/gamma/index.html)

Mattijs



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