From: Ramon Huerta <huerta@minerva.ii.uam.es>
Newsgroups: comp.parallel.mpi,comp.parallel.pvm
Subject: Re: Dual- vs. single processor motherboards
Date: Tue, 16 Mar 1999 10:40:22 +0100
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Curt Timmerman wrote:
> 

> I too found that the message passing overhead was the real bottleneck. In an
> attempt to speed things up I purchased a second ethernet card for each node. The
> second network is devoted strictly to PVM message passing. Using this with a
> switching hub should improve things. I haven't run any tests yet.
> 
I like this idea.
How do you redirect pvm traffic through the second ethernet device ?
What type of ethernet card do you recommend ?

Thanks
Ramon