[Beowulf] Network considerations for new generation cheap beowulfcluster

[Eugen Leitl]

On Tue, May 22, 2007 at 12:38:13AM -0400, Mark Hahn wrote:

> unless you're suggesting that games use collectives akin to MPI 
> broadcast/reduce/etc?

I could see how a low-latency interconnect would help with a
Second Life-like virtual reality, where most things happen
server-side. On the other hand, given that low-end servers
come with 4 GBit Ethernet NICs, just distributing the game
world across a 2d torus would do as well, or better.

Has anyone ever heard of a cluster wired in a diamond
lattice (made from tetrahedrons) topology?

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