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How, specifically does the architecture differ dramatically?

• scrooched_moose 8y ago
  Generally Infiniband [1] or Omni-Path [2] interconnects between the compute nodes - extremely high throughput and low latency communication on the order of 100 Gb/s and 1 microsecond. These problems aren't trillions of completely independent operations which may work for cloud/distributed architecture. For these types of calculations compute node 6523 needs to know the data coming from compute node 2447 in near-realtime to continue working. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/InfiniBand https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/InfiniBand https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omni-Path https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omni-Path
  • halbritt 8y ago
    Thanks for the detail. I can clearly see the benefit of a couple orders of magnitude less latency.