[Beowulf] Cluster Diagram of 500 PC

[John Hearns]

Mark Hahn wrote:
>> Anyway, hop latency in Ethernet is most of times just peanuts in terms of
>> latency compared to TCP/IP stack overhead...
> 
> unfortunately - I'm still puzzled why we haven't seen any open, 
> widely-used,
> LAN-tuned non-TCP implementation that reduces the latency.  it should be 
> possible to do ~10 us vs ~40 for a typical MPI-over-Gb-TCP.

Well, the SCore impementation which we install on all our clusters does 
just this.
www.pccluster.org

In fact, we have one 500 machine cluster which (at the time of install) 
ranked 167 in the Top 500 and achieved a very high efficiency.
All connected with gigabit ethernet only.
http://www.streamline-computing.com/index.php?wcId=76&xwcId=72




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