[Beowulf] Infiniband Support ?

[Orion Poplawski]

On 05/26/2014 04:50 AM, amjad ali wrote:
> Dear All,
>
> We have a small cluster of 16 nodes (single socket) with Intel S3210SH
> motherboards. Does it fully support to connect these nodes with infiniband
> switch and also installing the relevant iniband host adapter/interface cards?
>
> Is it worth to add such an high speed interconnect for such a general purpose
> cluster?
>
> If there is no support possible with infiniband then can we plan for any other
> high speed interconnect technology like Myrinet, Quadrics etc.
>
> Regards,
> Amjad Ali


FWIW - I've had reasonable success buying DDR IB hardware off of ebay for 
pretty cheap to add to our existing older hardware.


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