18 Aug
2016
18 Aug
'16
4:55 a.m.
On Wed, Aug 17, 2016 at 11:01:43PM -0500, Chris Elmquist wrote:
The SGI shared memory systems, the most current of which is called
"UV", is a NUMALink interconnected design. They have a number of
ASICs that implement the interconnect and protocol and bridge to the
Intel processors intra-processor link, which is called QPI.
I see, and I guess that NUMAlink is a decendant of the interconnect used
in SGI Origin2k and 3k systems?
The SGI cluster products use Infiniband for interconnect.
And to take advantage of that you would use MPI?
/P