Re: improving beowulf cluster performance
On Mon, 2005-10-17 at 14:31 +0300, Jimmy Ximerakis wrote:
> Hello,
> My name is Jimmy.I am an Informatics student and I do my final-year
> project on cluster computing on PCs with Linux 2.6.8, based on MPICH.
> Particularly, I am interested in improving cluster performance using any
> low-level, OS-oriented method.
> Could you please give any information, hints and pieces of code that I
> could apply to Linux kernel 2.6.x for better cluster performance? Any
> ideas would be helpful.
Google "gamma network protocol". A low-latency TCP/IP replacement
candidate with an MPI implementation over it. Only implemented on
certain network cards.
-Adam
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