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... Peter
On 4/3/07, Greg Lindahl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Tue, Apr 03, 2007 at 02:26:17PM -0400, Kyle Spaans wrote: > On a related, yet more serious note: > Would something like this: > http://www.killernic.com/KillerNic/ > Be applicable to beowulf? Now that's weird: * it's an offload engine * it claims to "lower your ping" i.e. help short messages * it claims to let you play while downloading torrents #2 is hard, #3 is harder, as traffic shaping isn't very effective against torrents. -- greg _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
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