[Beowulf] dual-core benefits?

[federica.pisani at quadrics.com]

Hi, 

indeed, for a 16-way (switch, cards, cables), Quadrics would be around $ 1,500, for an 8-way about $1,300 (again all hardware included).

Federica Pisani

Quadrics Ltd
One Bridewell Street, Bristol, BS1 2AA, UK
T: +44 117 9075387 F: +44 117 9075395
E: federica at quadrics.com
www.quadrics.com  


-----Original Message-----
From: Robert G. Brown [mailto:rgb at phy.duke.edu]
Sent: 22 September 2005 18:53
To: Tahir Malas
Cc: beowulf at beowulf.org
Subject: Re: [Beowulf] dual-core benefits?

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If you are bottlenecked at the network, consider e.g. Myrinet, SCI,
infiniband.  Most of the high end networks will cost order of $1000-1500
per node (IIRC) which works out just about right on the get 10 nodes
with the high end networks instead of 16 without.  

[...]