Availability of MPI over inet2 protocol

Donald Becker becker at scyld.com
Fri Nov 29 14:20:03 PST 2002


On Fri, 29 Nov 2002, Kwan Wing Keung wrote:

> Is there any recent development of MPI over the internet 2 (ipv6)
> protocol?  The higher speed and multiple addressing scheme as offered in
> inet2 will definitely improve the MPI communication.

Improve in what way?  IPv6 is slower and more complex.
The only appeal is that Someone Else is paying for the higher bandwidth
of the intersite network.

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