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Subject: Re: IP over IEEE1394?
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Cc: Rossam Souza Silva <rss@cin.ufpe.br>, current@FreeBSD.ORG
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>>
>
> The interconnect is just 10% of the whole cluster story. Firewire
> is one possibility, but Fibrechannel you could do today if you wanted
> to. We have Fibrechannel support in the Qlogic isp(4) driver (thanks
> Matt!) today.
>

Yeah... if you are lucky 10% :).  In fact latency in messages isn't as 
important
as some people would like you to believe either.  A well written MPI 
library
  [and MPI application] allows overlap of communication and computation
that improves the overall wall clock time of the job... which is the 
ultimate goal.

Get it done correctly and get it done ASAP! :)

but that's WAAAAY offtopic now :)

Dave


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