<div>Gaming driving supercomputing still makes me feel funny (but then, Ken Thompson and Belle so...). But I'm picturing ganglionic head nodes with KillerNic and playstations for compute nodes...</div>
<div>Peter<br><br> </div>
<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 4/3/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Greg Lindahl</b> <<a href="mailto:greg.lindahl@qlogic.com">greg.lindahl@qlogic.com</a>> wrote:</span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">On Tue, Apr 03, 2007 at 02:26:17PM -0400, Kyle Spaans wrote:<br><br>> On a related, yet more serious note:
<br>> Would something like this:<br>> <a href="http://www.killernic.com/KillerNic/">http://www.killernic.com/KillerNic/</a><br>> Be applicable to beowulf?<br><br>Now that's weird:<br><br>* it's an offload engine
<br>* it claims to "lower your ping" i.e. help short messages<br>* it claims to let you play while downloading torrents<br><br>#2 is hard, #3 is harder, as traffic shaping isn't very effective<br>against torrents.
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