You can go here if you want to see the paper i co-wrote with kkeville on the topic of using firewire for hypercubes.
http://web.mit.edu/kkeville/www/firewire/ rob On Wed, 13 Mar 2002, Robert Tompkins wrote: > I have. Last time i was working with it (last summer) it seemed viable but > the drivers were still in development and i was unable to get anything > more than 200mbit. Things don't seem to have changed since then. I was > using ip1394 and eth1394.Both of those driver don't seem to have been > worked on since the last time i used them. > Rob > On 12 Mar 2002, Andrew (Andy) W. > Schmeder wrote: > > > Hi all. > > > > I'm looking at building a cluster for my research group... we debated > > the idea of using firewire for networking; the advantage being its fast, > > and removes a possible point-of-failure (the switch). Has anyone tried > > this with success, or have reason to believe that this is at all a > > viable idea? > > > > > > thanks > > andy > > > > > > > > -- > > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >

