BIP (was Re: Cables)

[Pierre Brua]

Pete Beckman wrote:
> The SCALI web
> pages say: "ScaMPI's message latency, measured as half the round-trip delay
> of a zero length MPI message, is less than 10 µsec".  The BIP folks in
> France have an MPI over BIP that they report has a latency of 12 µsec, and
> a bandwidth of 1 Gb/sec for a 8MB message.  As you can see, apples to
> apples is hard.

BIP is not Open-source either. Close in fact. The source is owned by the
Matra french company.
See http://lhpca.univ-lyon1.fr/software/distrib.html for more.
I don't think it will one day be released under the GPL. But who knows.

Pierre
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