[Swift-devel] coaster status summary

[Mihael Hategan]

On Mon, 2008-04-07 at 07:03 +0000, Ben Clifford wrote:
> there's an interesting issue here of how much we should (in our general 
> codebase, rather than in special customisations such as plugging in 
> falkon) be supporting 'wierd' systems such as the BG/P which have, 
> apparently, neither a decent shared filesystem or IP layer network fabric, 
> vs support for more traditional clusters which seem to have both IP layer 
> interconnect between nodes and decent shared filesystems.

That is a good point. However, UDP was chosen to support systems with a
very large number of CPUs in the first place. In other words if UDP
won't work on BG/P, I don't see much reason for going with it.

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