Beowulf in a Box

[Kragen]

On Sun, 27 Sep 1998, Bob Drzyzgula wrote:
> I don't really understand (perhaps someone
> can enlighten me) why a computer system can be more efficient
> moving bits across a PCI-attached Ethernet card than it can
> moving bits across the PCI bus itself.

Well, broadcasting and multicasting are, I think, possible over
Ethernet, but not over PCI.  Also, AFAIK, the PCI switches you speak of
are vaporware at the moment, while Fast Ethernet switches are not.

Kragen

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