[Beowulf] AMD’s Direct Connect Architecture

[Richard Walsh]

On Mon, 28 Jun 2004 11:52:34 -0700, Greg Lindahl wrote:

>Red Storm is 1-way nodes.

Right, but there is room for confusion here because the
node boards include 4 Opteron processors ... yes, each 
with their own directly controlled memory ... but intra-
board accesses will be on a short hyper transport path 
through the local router.

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