Can anyone tell me if I can find a complete list of all high BW, low latency
networks and vendors somewhere. I know myricom, quadrics and the various
infiniband vendors like melanox, verari, voltaire and Qlogic. Are these the
main players?
well, do you count 10GE in general? I would think you should, since
although 10GE+OpenMP isn't _that_ competitive with IB/quadrics or
even myriMX, it's still very fast. the 10GE market seems to be
developing slower than I expected, though, with switches remaining
pretty expensive, and there doesn't seem to be a lot of "chatter"
of street experience on this list, for instance. my organization has had
a 10GE WAN backbone for a while, and has had moderate success with
getting 10GE data onto it (rather than just aggregating lots of 1GE).
SFP+ seems like a useful advance for 10GE, assuming 10GbaseT is either
not going to happen or will take a long time. the switch side of things
seems to be slo-mo as well.
IB is, of course, mainly just Mellanox, though Qlogic still has a finger
in the pie. (just NICs, though, right? AFAIKT Qlogic's switches are built
from Mellanox chips like all the rest...)
Quadrics is a bit of an enigma to me - we're still going strong with our
Elan4 systems, but I don't really understand Quadrics future plans.
they seem to be morphing into a 10GE vendor, but do they have any unique
value-add?
BTW, as for the adaptors, does it make a big difference if they are on a
hypertransport or PCI express (because I might be constrained to Xeon's)?
iirc, there was only a small latency difference between HTX and PCI-E
versions of Infinipath.
Next, could anyone point me to recent benchmarks of the pathscale and icc
compiler vs. gcc ?
I'd like to see that too! might as well throw in PGI. in fact, we have
all of those compilers available - does anyone have suggestions of good
test codes?
regards, mark hahn.
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