Its their own new proprietary interconnect, runs at 80Gb/s (similar speed to IB 8x), switches are low port count. What the article missed is that they are also using their own CPUs and host chipset (along with Intel) in that system as well.
Gilad -----Original Message----- From: beowulf-boun...@beowulf.org [mailto:beowulf-boun...@beowulf.org] On Behalf Of Mark Hahn Sent: Thursday, October 28, 2010 2:00 PM To: Beowulf Mailing List Subject: Re: [Beowulf] China Wrests Supercomputer Title From U.S. > http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/28/technology/28compute.html "wrests", bah. you get exactly the rank on top500 that you pay for. this url: http://www.eetimes.com/electronics-news/4210223/Interconnect-pushed-Chin a-super-to--1 mentions 160 Gbps as the speed of the interconnect, but also says "twice QDR". afaik QDR is 40 GB before encoding, so Galaxy would be 80, not 160. anyone have further details on what the "galaxy" interconnect is? _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org sponsored by Penguin Computing To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org sponsored by Penguin Computing To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
