| R. Garmire, Personal communication. IBM Power Parallel Division, Switch Development. |
....but we were able to confirm that the new adapters are built around a PowerPC 601 processor, allowing the doubling of the peak transfer bandwidth reaching 160 MB s. The new switch offers 300 MB s peak bi directional bandwidth, with latencies of less than 1. 2 s for systems with up to 80 nodes [Gar96]. Regarding the software environment, each SP2 node runs a full version of AIX, IBM s version of UNIX. It includes all the UNIX features, plus specific tools and libraries for programming and executing parallel programs. Our first tests on C4 s SP2 were carried out with version 3 of AIX, which ....
R. Garmire, Personal communication. IBM Power Parallel Division, Switch Development.
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