Sorry for the delay in answering your question Martin.
We're very aware of the fact that running MPI on STP
makes a lot of sense. The only MPI implementation on
STP that I'm aware of is within SGI - on Irix platforms.
I'm still a couple of months away from getting the
'feature set' of STP which is required for MPI working
on Linux and GbE. Once that is done, we're very interested
in working to get MPI on STP - in form of efforts within
SGI, and working with anyone interested on the outside also -
e.g. if somebody were to explain to me the requirements
MPICH would have from STP, we could work towards delivering
them.
Hope this answers your question.
thanks,
:a
>
> Hi,
>
> I saw your article in Linux Weekly News about STP on Linux
> (e.g.: http://lwn.net/2000/0217/a/stp.html).
>
> Can you tell me if you know any project of using MPI over
> STP ?
>
> Since STP allows high bandwidth, low latency user space
> communication and since it support Gigabit Ethernet
> (and we can expect a price drop for GbE devices), it
> would opens the door to a new generation of high
> performance low cost Beowulf parallel systems.
>
> Martin
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