Re: Minutes from Feb 21 LSE Call

Mark Hahn (hahn@physics.mcmaster.ca)
Sat, 22 Feb 2003 18:54:10 -0500 (EST)


> I could ask the SGI Eagan folks to do that with an Altix and a IA64
> Whitebox - oh wait, both OSes would be Linux..

the only public info I've seen is "round-trip in as little as 40ns",
which is too vague to be useful. and sounds WAY optimistic - perhaps
that's just between two CPUs in a single brick. remember that
LMBench shows memory latencies of O(100ns) for even fast uniprocessors.

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