[Info-vax] State of the Port - July 2017

[MG]

Op 17-jul-2017 om 16:24 schreef John Reagan:
> I didn't want to bother with making an account but somebody 
> who does have one should reply to the question about NonStop 
> porting to non-Itanium about half way down the page...  NonStop 
> has been on x86 for several years now and performs much faster 
> than its Itanium counterpart (partly due to a faster fabric 
> interconnect using Infiniband)

Is InfiniBand ideal though?  Maybe the faster multicore/hyper-
threading/etc. processors these days mitigate the overhead
issues, and perhaps NonStop is the type of platform that can
get away with lower overall performance, since it's largely
about so-called 'transaction availability/reliability' and
probably I/O, too.  But, still though... efficiency would be
something else then.

I remember reading some rather heated discussions in research
and HPC spheres, complaining about it and I wasn't exactly
blown away the times when I tried InfiniBand myself...
(Which, in fact, was already years ago and I've long since
'reverted' to 10GbE.)

  - MG