[Beowulf] IEEE 1588 (PTP) - a better cluster clock?

Patrick Geoffray patrick at myri.com
Fri Jul 20 13:49:54 PDT 2007


Greg Lindahl wrote:
> time on all your nodes, which should improve performance when you have
> big clusters and a lot of synchronization in your code.

Provided it scales well and it's integrated in the kernel. I guess You 
could also think about revisiting the gang scheduling ideas with a 
better synchronization.

Patrick



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