Cables

[Paul Eduard Schenker]

We looked at SCSI and dropped it; Myrinet looks good if you really need the
bandwith.

About FastEthernet: we've exxperimented with cables with only 4 wires, and
they seem to work quite well (in some cases we observed a perfomance
improvement for which I have absolutely no explanation). Any experience in
this field?

Paul
 
At 04:29 PM 6/1/99 +0200, Martin Konold wrote:
>On Tue, 1 Jun 1999, Alvin Starr wrote:
>
>> At 80Mbytes/sec SCSI can make for a fast link between a small number of
>> systems and with a low overhead protocol it could help solve some of the
>> problems involved in trying to share memory across a network. 
>
>No, unfortunately the overhead of SCSI is compared to SCI and Myrinet
>tremendeous. (Latencies in the ms range)
>
>Regards,
>-- martin
>
>// Martin Konold, Herrenbergerstr. 14, 72070 Tuebingen, Germany  //
>// Email: konold@kde.org                                         //
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