[AG-TECH] Is there a maximum number of nodes or streams that AG can support?

[Jennifer Teig von Hoffman]

AG participated in the bandwidth challenge one year at Supercomputing, 
perhaps SC2000? It was quite an amusing choice actually....one really 
shouldn't try to break bandwidth records using multicast. Nonetheless, 
there was a huge number of streams, definitely over 50 and perhaps in 
the neighborhood of 100. The total number of streams varied a bit from 
site to site, depending mostly on multicast issues.

It was absolutely not interactive, but most video streams had some sort 
of movement. Here at BU, one of our colleagues brought in Mindstorms and 
we just turned the camera on them while they ran around.

- Jennifer

Martin Turner wrote:
> I remember counting about 52 streams at the test session on 
> Supercomputing 05 (if I remember) with about 10% packet loss. Somone may 
> have a record better than this and official.
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> There was about 30 for the Bill Gates Seminar a year or so later.
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> Agree with Tom: I think we should try a SC Global mass test sometime.
> 
> yours Martin
> 
> Horwitz, Richard S wrote:
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>> Richard Horwitz
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>> Brookhaven National Laboratory
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>> Horwitz at bnl.gov <mailto:Horwitz at bnl.gov>
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