From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: From: erik quanstrom Date: Sat, 18 Apr 2009 00:26:11 -0400 To: 9fans@9fans.net In-Reply-To: <621112A569DAE948AD25CCDCF1C075331AB4E1@dolly.ntdom.cupdx> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [9fans] Plan9 - the next 20 years Topicbox-Message-UUID: e5125364-ead4-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 > Speaking of NUMA and such though, is there even any support for it in the kernel? > I know we have a 10gb Ethernet driver, but what about cluster interconnects such as InfiniBand, Quadrics, or Myrinet? Are such things even desired in Plan 9? there is no explicit numa support in the pc kernel. however it runs just fine on standard x86-64 numa architectures like intel nelaham and amd opteron. we have two 10gbe ethernet drivers the myricom driver and the intel 82598 driver. the blue gene folks have support for a number of blue-gene-specific networks. i don't know too much about myrinet, infiniband or quadratics. i have nothing against any of them, but 10gbe has been a much better fit for the things i've wanted to do. - erik