On 17/05/17 07:25, Mark Hahn wrote: > the question, in my book, would be whether they could deliver decently > low latency (running MPI, Linux, open-source drivers on a commodity switch).
I'm guessing to do that they'd need some form of RoCE (RDMA over Converged Ethernet) support too, which I suspect needs switch support (seems to from my limited involvement with a Mellanox 10/40/100 gigE cluster on campus). I was going to download the driver to take a look here: http://www.aquantia.com/driver-download/ but there's a restrictive set of terms for it which seem GPL incompatible to me, so I didn't proceed. There's a little bit on the card here too (plus comments): http://techreport.com/news/31904/aquantia-aqtion-nics-bring-5-gbps-ethernet-to-a-pcie-slot-near-you Best of luck! Chris -- Christopher Samuel Senior Systems Administrator Melbourne Bioinformatics - The University of Melbourne Email: sam...@unimelb.edu.au Phone: +61 (0)3 903 55545 _______________________________________________ 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
