On 27/11/2012 13:14, Vincent Diepeveen wrote: > Don't post something ridicioulous like that. > > That 64MB they use of course as with infiniband shipping a message of > 64MB wil get you the full bandwidth over the network > and keep number of messages down and infiniband doesn't work at your > laptop. > Hello Vincent, These are tunable parameters.
I think the point the previous poster was making was that he is testing the water in a small scale on his laptop to become aquainted with the software layer at this point. VM's are a quick cheap and cheerful hack that can allow for very rapid proto-typing, even on a laptop, before going full tilt on bespoke hardware and rolling out increasingly exotic fabrics and pipelines. Pete -- The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute is operated by Genome Research Limited, a charity registered in England with number 1021457 and a company registered in England with number 2742969, whose registered office is 215 Euston Road, London, NW1 2BE. _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, [email protected] sponsored by Penguin Computing To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
