Does firewire support broadcast?

[Felix Rauch]

On Tue, 16 May 2000, Richard Rogers wrote:
> I've got a Beowulf app where broadcasting very large vectors is a
> serial IPC bottleneck. 100 Mbps ethernet isn't fast enough to
> scale beyond a couple of machines.
[...]

May I ask you how you broadcast the data? There are approaches to
broadcast large amounts of data which scale quite well independant on
the number of machines.

- Felix
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