Re: Minutes from Feb 21 LSE Call

[Martin J. Bligh]

>> > ccNUMA worst-case latencies are not much different from decent 
>> > cluster (message-passing) latencies.
>> 
>> Not even close, by several orders of magnitude.
> 
> Err, I think you're wrong.  It's been a long time since I looked, but I'm
> pretty sure myrinet had single digit microseconds.  Yup, google rocks,
> 7.6 usecs, user to user.  Last I checked, Sequents worst case was around
> there, right?

Sequent hardware is very old. Go time a Regatta.

M.