http://www.linux-mag.com/id/5979/ Open Source, Open Standards Fri, 10 Feb 2012 10:28:21 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 http://www.linux-mag.com/id/5979/#comment-5336 bruno.santos Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.linux-mag.com/id/5979/#comment-5336 So basically, this means that the "traffic jam shockwave" (youtube it) also happens in HPC... even if the acceleration is digital! So I can only deduce that the predictive and flock systems that are being developed for computer driven vehicles, will also be used in HPC in a not so far future! Or vice-versa even!!<br /> Uhm... I guess hierarchical management agents might get to be introduced, instead of a single master in the cluster... thus relieving the interconnects with alternating data transfers...<br /> Nonetheless, one thing that can help in situations of cores being faster than the interconnects, is to use "real-time" data compression... I hope this is an hypothesis that can be taken into account!! Since you've got CPU to spend... think compact! It's not the ideal solution, but saves a bundle in money while you can't get the new "hyper-speed" network, and the current one was just a "bad buy".<br /> But hey, what do I know, I'm just a newbie in HPC! So basically, this means that the “traffic jam shockwave” (youtube it) also happens in HPC… even if the acceleration is digital! So I can only deduce that the predictive and flock systems that are being developed for computer driven vehicles, will also be used in HPC in a not so far future! Or vice-versa even!!
Uhm… I guess hierarchical management agents might get to be introduced, instead of a single master in the cluster… thus relieving the interconnects with alternating data transfers…
Nonetheless, one thing that can help in situations of cores being faster than the interconnects, is to use “real-time” data compression… I hope this is an hypothesis that can be taken into account!! Since you’ve got CPU to spend… think compact! It’s not the ideal solution, but saves a bundle in money while you can’t get the new “hyper-speed” network, and the current one was just a “bad buy”.
But hey, what do I know, I’m just a newbie in HPC!

]]> http://www.linux-mag.com/id/5979/#comment-5337 prentice Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.linux-mag.com/id/5979/#comment-5337 Nice SiCortex Advertisement, Doug. Nice SiCortex Advertisement, Doug.

]]> http://www.linux-mag.com/id/5979/#comment-5338 bryanjrichard Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.linux-mag.com/id/5979/#comment-5338 Traffic jam shockwaves are pretty <a href="http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=traffic%20jam%20shockwave&ie=UTF-8&oe=utf-8&rls=com.ubuntu:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&um=1&sa=N&tab=wv" rel="nofollow">cool</a>. Traffic jam shockwaves are pretty cool.

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