InfiniBand Drivers Released for Xserve G5 Clusters

A user writes, "A company called Small Tree just announced the release of InfiniBand drivers for the Mac, for more supercomputing speed. People have already been making supercomputer clusters for the Mac, including Virginia Tech's third-fastest supercomputer in the world, but InfiniBand is supposed to make the latency drop. A lot. Voltaire also makes some sort of Apple InfiniBand products, though it's not clear whether they make the drivers or hardware."

Comments

So?

[Anonymous Coward]

Nobody uses MACs.

Mig Mac was a farce

[fatphil]

"Virginia Tech's third-fastest supercomputer in the world"

Everyone in the world who knew about supercomputing told them, at the time, that they should use proper error-correcting RAM, but oh no, the cheapskates at Virginia knew better.

And consequently they never performed any computation whose results they could be sure of the correctness of. They simply said that they'd just repeat the computation repeatedly until they got agreement. And therefore they were less than half of the speed that they claimed to be.

The embarassment was correctly ripped up and sold off for scrap, and was jetisoned from the top 500 list.

Allegedly they're going to do it properly next time.

But hey - the scrapping of the old one is a good thing, as there are hundreds of people who could pick up really nice kit pretty cheap. Those POWER-based PPCs are damn fine processors. I'd certainly have been queueing up to buy one if I were more local.

FP.

Re:Xsan

[Anonymous Coward]

Help me! I'm a clueless mac user with no brain.