On Sat, Mar 04, 2006 at 09:57:33AM -0800, Ed Karns wrote: > A possible alternative: Last week Apple announced the newer version > of the Mac Mini ... meaning that the previous models could shortly > be picked up quite reasonably ... and picking up a number of these > [1.25 or 1.4 GigaHertz, 512K RAM (upgradable), ethernet and FireWire > equipped, 50 watt (observed, running)] systems ... is certainly food > for thought ... as the FireWire ports as fast or faster than > 1000baseT ethernet and work with Apple's own "beowulf > scenario" (http://www.apple.com/xserve/workgroupcluster/) or if
Huh? Where is there any info about using FireWire for Beowulf networking, e.g., for running MPI? I certainly see nothing on that page about it. Is anyone even using Firewire as a network interconnect for real, anywhere? -- Andrew Piskorski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.piskorski.com/ _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, [email protected] To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
