Re: Minutes from Feb 21 LSE Call

From: Martin J. Bligh (mbligh@aracnet.com)
Date: Sat Feb 22 2003 - 18:47:09 EST


>> > ccNUMA worst-case latencies are not much different from decent
>> > cluster (message-passing) latencies.
>>
>> Not even close, by several orders of magnitude.
>
> Err, I think you're wrong. It's been a long time since I looked, but I'm
> pretty sure myrinet had single digit microseconds. Yup, google rocks,
> 7.6 usecs, user to user. Last I checked, Sequents worst case was around
> there, right?

Sequent hardware is very old. Go time a Regatta.

M.

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