On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 11:08:38AM -0500, Marcel Rieux wrote: > On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 8:36 AM, Pasi Kärkkäinen <pasik@xxxxxx> wrote: > > Ooops! Maybe the discussion is not over :) > > I understand not much of this, so let me try to sum this up in a > know-nothing friendly way. > > They use nvidia multi gpu video cards for routing. Hence, they don't > face the interrupts problems so soon. > Uhm, no, they didn't use video cards. They used normal Asus P6T6 desktop motherboard, which has additional PCI-e slots on the Nvidia NF200 PCI Express fanout switch chip (which is connected to the Intel X58 chipset). > I suppose this is pretty experimental at this stage, though. How many > cores are they using? I believe the plans are for 64 in the near > future. > No, that was not experimental at all. In addition to the normal desktop motherboard they used Myrinet 10 Gbit PCI-E NICs. > Now, this is interesting... I believe. Good thing Huang pretends he's > not after Intel's skin :) > 10 Gbit throughput, over a single 10 Gbit link, between Linux boxes was possible already in 2008. -- Pasi -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
