David, I've found a description that Infiniband was improved from 2 x 4X IB (20 Gbps) to 8 x 8X IB (160 Gbps) on Jun 2008 at the bottom of 6th page of a pdf about Huygens system: https://www.os3.nl/_media/2007-2008/courses/inr/week7/sne_20080320_walter.pdf
I guess that is the "better hardware" Olivier wrote. Hideki David Doshay: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >On 22, Sep 2008, at 10:50 PM, Hideki Kato wrote: >> >> David Doshay: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >>> It was 800, just like last time, but the networking had been upgraded >>> from ethernet to infiniband. Olivier said that this should have >>> been a >>> good improvement because he felt that communication overhead was >>> significant. >> >> Really previous Huygens used Ethernet? It's hard to believe... >> >> Hideki > >I thought so as well, but Olivier wrote to me: > >Begin forwarded message: > >> From: Olivier Teytaud <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> Date: 6, September 2008 2:07:42 AM PDT >> To: David Doshay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> Subject: Re: [computer-go] yet a mogo vs human game >> >> Hi David, >> ... >> >> We will have at least the same number of cores, probably more, and >> we will very likely have a better hardware - >> the infiniband network should be available, and this makes a big >> difference. >> >> ... >> Best regards, >> Olivier > > >So, perhaps Huygens has both and they were not using it last time, >or maybe they brought Huygens up with E-net and then upgraded. > >But Mogo did not use it for the Portland exhibition, but did use >infiniband for the rematch. > >Cheers, >David >_______________________________________________ >computer-go mailing list >[email protected] >http://www.computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go/ -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kato) _______________________________________________ computer-go mailing list [email protected] http://www.computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go/
