Global Shared Memory and SCI/Dolphin

[Daniel Kidger]

Franz Marini wrote:

>  Nonetheless, I still can't quite understand why so little effort is 
>being put in developing a GSM solution for commodity cluster (even with 
>Myrinet or Quadrics, I'm thinking about SCI/Dolphin only because of the hw 
>support for RDMA operations).

The Quadrics Interconnect also does hardware RDMA, and yes a significant
percentage of people do use Global Shared Memory programming models rather
than message passing.

In fact I thought all four of SCALI/Quadrics/Myrinet/Infiniband could do
RDMA ??


Yours,
Daniel.

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Dr. Dan Kidger, Quadrics Ltd.      daniel.kidger at quadrics.com
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