[Beowulf] ...Re: Benchmark results

[Greg Lindahl]

On Thu, Jan 08, 2004 at 04:14:38PM -0800, Jim Lux wrote:

> >Perhaps I'm overly optimistic, but writing a kernel module to achieve 
> >cluster-wide microsecond-level clock synchronization just might be 
> >feasible...
> 
> I am entirely certain that this can be done, and may have already been 
> done. It's such a useful thing to "know, exactly, what time it is"....

Octiga Bay claimed to have done it at SC. However, they made it sound
like they did a lot of work to get it going, as what they were doing
was enabling MPI programs to run in lock-step on microsecond
timescales.  That's much harder than just getting global times.

No doubt SGI has done something clever on their big Altix boxes.

-- greg

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