First, Hi all and thanks for your answers. Were truly useful. Which brings me to...
On Fri, 27 Jan 2006, Mark Hahn wrote:
I wonder whether anyone has critically evaluated whether this is important. cluster people I talk to like to say fuzzy things like "separate networks make the cluster breathe better". as much as I admire car analogies, I observe that when apps are doing IO, they tend not to be doing MPI. if your workload is like that, bonding rather than partitioning would actually improve performance. I wonder whether the partitioning approach might actual reflect other constraints, such as using half-duplex hubs, or low-bisection networks.
as anyone comments on this? because it hit my next question, if anyone had experiences (measurable) of performance. I've also read/heard about load balancing the network, I figure this is using the two network cards but having a network loadbalancing (software? hardware) attached and take the utmost from both network cards. any one has ideas about this?
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