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Commodity Interconnects
Like the Cheshire Cat in Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland, it seems increasingly clear that in the high-performance, low latency interconnection network space, we will be left with nothing but the smile. Simply put, the last remaining non-commodity component of HPC clusters – the high-performance interconnect – is in grave danger, due to the global economic downturn and the price-performance pressures of commodity Ethernet. A few thoughts are posted at http://www.hpcdan.org/reeds_ruminations/2009/05/nothing-left-but-the-smile.html
