On Mon, 2002-03-11 at 17:44, Jorge L. deLyra wrote: > Kurt, > > > I have put together a �Cluster that addresses some of these concerns. > > Very interesting, yours is a more solid-engineering type of approach, not > a surprise considering you address!... > > > I eschewed latency concerns in favor of bandwidth ones and implemented a > > channel-bonding scheme much like the one used at http://ilab.usc.edu/beo. > > How does bonding of 100 Mbps cards compare with Gigabit Ehternet these > days? The cards are not all that expensive anymore, but I guess the > network equipment still is. We got a 3Com server card for about US$ 500 > some time ago, but I hear there are some going for less than US$ 200 now. >
Actually, I'm curious whether one could get low latency out of standard 100/1000 Mbps cards via bypassing the tcp stack, perhaps using af_packet. Or is this already what linux mpi et al. use? Tim
