[openib-general] IB: I don't like what I'm seeing.

Wed Apr 7 19:32:05 PDT 2004

I *think* this is the one that IBM built.

Steve...

>Anyone knows about the health of this 512-node IB cluster?
>http://www.fujitsu.com/news/pr/archives/month/2003/20030731-02.html
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>Is it working or work still in progress?
>Looks like this is the largest IB cluster news I ever read (other than the one
>below)..anyone knows about an IB cluster larger than this?
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>thanks, som.
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>Ron Brightwell wrote:
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>>>As for the Infiniband scalability with the RC connections, you can take the
>>>Virginia Tech cluster of 1100 2-way SMP's (2200 connections/node) that has
>>>been running heavy computational tasks for days. Maybe this is the example
>>>you are looking for.
>>>[...]
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>>And you can even buy parts of this machine if you want:
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>>It worked so well that they decided to tear it down and sell it :)
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>>Even so, I wouldn't think you'd want to use a machine that doesn't have ECC
>>host memory to measure network reliability....
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>>-Ron
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