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Date: Sat, 22 Feb 2003 15:47:09 -0800
From: "Martin J. Bligh" <mbligh@aracnet.com>
To: Larry McVoy <lm@bitmover.com>, William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>,
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>> > ccNUMA worst-case latencies are not much different from decent 
>> > cluster (message-passing) latencies.
>> 
>> Not even close, by several orders of magnitude.
> 
> Err, I think you're wrong.  It's been a long time since I looked, but I'm
> pretty sure myrinet had single digit microseconds.  Yup, google rocks,
> 7.6 usecs, user to user.  Last I checked, Sequents worst case was around
> there, right?

Sequent hardware is very old. Go time a Regatta.

M.

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