On Thu, May 24, 2007 at 02:06:26PM -0400, Kyle Spaans wrote: > "The last, and probably the simplest, network is a bus. A cluster of > workstations on an ethernet provides a popular example.
This is a blast from the past: in the good old days, ethernet networks were bridged/hubbed together instead of putting each host on its own switch port. In 1997 this was already often not true. Today, nobody would build a cluster without a switch. -- greg _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, [email protected] To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
