[Beowulf] Ethernet break through?

[Peter St. John]

Gaming driving supercomputing still makes me feel funny (but then, Ken
Thompson and Belle so...). But I'm picturing ganglionic head nodes with
KillerNic and playstations for compute nodes...
Peter


On 4/3/07, Greg Lindahl <greg.lindahl at qlogic.com> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Apr 03, 2007 at 02:26:17PM -0400, Kyle Spaans wrote:
>
> > On a related, yet more serious note:
> > Would something like this:
> > http://www.killernic.com/KillerNic/
> > Be applicable to beowulf?
>
> Now that's weird:
>
> * it's an offload engine
> * it claims to "lower your ping" i.e. help short messages
> * it claims to let you play while downloading torrents
>
> #2 is hard, #3 is harder, as traffic shaping isn't very effective
> against torrents.
>
> -- greg
>
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