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InfiniBand Drivers Released for Xserve G5 Clusters

Posted by pudge on from the insert-grunting-noise-here dept.

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."

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  1. Imagine by commodoresloat · · Score: 3, Funny

    installing Infiniband on a single unit G5....

  2. Well thank goodness.... by Killer+Eye · · Score: 3, Funny

    ...Halo and UT2004 were starting to slow down on my 1200 CPU cluster!

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    "Microsoft killed my company, I hold a personal grudge. I don't use Microsoft products and neither should you."-JWZ
  3. Re:Proprietary Crap by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny
    But they should give it away for FREE!! I want FREE stuff! Gimme FREE stuff, this is slashdot! Information wants to be FREE (as in, fucking GIVEN to me without any effort on my part whatsoever)! Stick it to the man!!

    (Dress this up in a bunch stupid rhetoric, and you have the typical response around here.)

  4. Re:Proprietary Crap by glenkim · · Score: 2, Funny
    If so, then why bother? Alternative network stacks over gig-ethernet would be much cheaper and can reasonably competitive in terms of latency with well written code.



    There was a dead project that I read about a few months ago that had 20microsecond latency over 100 ethernet. If anybody knows what I'm talking about, I would appreciate a refresher.