From: lindahl@cs.virginia.edu (Greg Lindahl)
Newsgroups: comp.parallel.mpi
Subject: Re: To build a Myrinet LINUX cluster?
Date: 8 Dec 1998 15:04:53 GMT
Organization: a guest of Shadow Island Games
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panshing@hotmail.com writes:

>   The specificaition of Myrinet card M2F-PCI32B/C tells me that it works in a
> 32 bit 33MHz PCI interface.
> 
>   Todays' PC often has much higher system bus clock speed, 66MHz or 100MHz(I
> guess it is the PCI bus clock speed too). Besides, PCI may be 64-bit instead
> of 32-bit.

The PCI bus will still be 33mhz on a 100 mhz system bus machine. Newer
systems with wider PCI busses are back-compatible. Myrinet cards are
just like any other normal PCI card.

-- g