low-latency high-bandwidth OS bypass user-level messaging for commodity(linux) clusters with commodityNICs(<$200), HELP! (GAMMA/EMP/M-VIA/etc.)

[Jeff Layton]

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> A good example is easy to find: the Intel GigE NIC series has added
> about a half dozen new PCI IDs in the past year.  Not just revision
> numbers, which we don't track, but the major ID number.  Some of those
> new versions appear to have significant changes in the feature set and
> in the way they handle small packets to reduce latency.

I'm not sure what NICS these are, but I just found some good
numbers for GigE NICs:

http://www.plogic.com/ll-gige.html

They look pretty darn good!


Jeff


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> That's a life cycle of about three months, which is shorter than the
> time to decide a device driver is stable.
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