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The salient hardware difference is probably cache coherence in the SGI interconnect.
by gnufx 8y ago
The salient hardware difference is probably cache coherence in the SGI interconnect.
- gaius 8y agoNo, the Ares interconnect is brutally fast but it fundamentally isn’t doing anything as complicated as that. It acts as both storage and networking between the nodes.
- gnufx 8y agoI missed this at the time, but yes -- that's the point, in comparison with NUMAlink or whatever it is now. (s/Ares/Aries/)