On 2/7/11 8:10 AM, Robert Horton wrote: > On Thu, 2011-02-03 at 09:45 +0000, Hearns, John wrote: >> Also look at ScaleMP and Numascale >> Here's a damn good article from Doug Eadline: >> http://www.linux-mag.com/id/7947 >> >> I must admit though I don't know how far a budget of 30K takes you >> there! > > My understanding is that the Numascale cards cost "a bit more" than IB > cards but you don't need a switch (it's a 3D taurus I think) so it would > be worth looking into. > > Rob >
Numascale was born out of the Dolphinics Interconnect. The interconnect already provided cach-coherent global shared memory, so they worked on making it work at the node level. The unique feature of this card is that it never required a switch, and the topology was a Torus. You could buy 2D or 3D versions. The maximum scale back then was 12 nodes in a dimension. How this works out with Numascale, I don't know. I think evaluation systems are out in the wild and the are supposedly really close to having something for sale. Craig > _______________________________________________ > 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
