Historically, Intel seems to endorse different interconnect technologies and then come back to more middle stream. (e.g. IB -> GigE, Qlogic purchase not withstanding)
You might make more headway with USB. USB networking has been around for a while, I looked at it as a possible low cost interconnect but decided 1 GigE (Intel controllers) is pretty good, and 10 GigE is quite good for small scale HPC. I got good numbers with low cost Chelsio NICs, Open-MX, and older hardware, see http://goo.gl/5l2NJ. I may take another look at USB3, but Ethernet just seems easier and tends to ride the commodity wave quite well. -- Doug > Hi all! > > So a company based out of Cupertino mentioned using this silicon in a > revamp of their MacPro line today... > > http://blogs.intel.com/technology/2013/06/video-creation-bolts-ahead-%E2%80%93-intel%E2%80%99s-thunderbolt%E2%84%A2-2-doubles-bandwidth-enabling-4k-video-transfer-display-2/ > > we appear to have a second version of a 20GB/s consumer connection > (latency unknown), and yet this search: > > https://www.google.com/search?q=linux+thunderbolt+interconnect > > does not really go anywhere cool like a github or kernel.org repo.... > > Any qualified folks know where this thunderbolt stuff is all heading > and are able to talk in public? > > Best, > > j. > > p.s. > > yes I did move back to .edu just in case folks were doing a double > take. And yes, (like Dr. Layton) I do still think that cloud > infrastructure > as a service and HPC/HTC are still a really good idea for the right > algorithms and workloads! :-) > > -- > dr. james cuff, director of research computing & chief technology > architect > harvard university | faculty of arts and sciences | division of science rm > 210, thirty eight oxford street, cambridge. ma. 02138 tel: +1 617 384 7647 > | > http://about.me/jcuff > _______________________________________________ > 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 > > -- > Mailscanner: Clean > -- Doug -- Mailscanner: Clean _______________________________________________ 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
