User: Nick T. Hammer

Re:Better than Beowulf for normal use...

On: How to get 1.5 TeraFlops from Linux

Yes, but Altix has something more: Global Shared Memory with NUMAFlex...
The memory is globally shared between each nodes and make the cluster looks like an SMP machine.
Very usefull if all your threads have to share a large amount of memory (database)...