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Re:Living Without Atomic Clocks by vinkelhake on Wednesday February 17, 2016 @05:54PM (#11122216)
The 7ms bound is on the machines that do the actual work, not the ones with access to special clock hardware.
Re:Living Without Atomic Clocks by lifty on Wednesday February 17, 2016 @06:27PM (#11122418)
Indeed. The machines that do the actual work will still use a an inaccurate clock and get periodic corrective updates. That being said, you should be able to get a much higher precision using PTP and some decent network cards. There are plenty of factors that come into play (network latency, congestion, etc) but 7 ms sets the bar low.
Re:Living Without Atomic Clocks by easytiger on Thursday February 18, 2016 @04:58AM (#11124734)
7ms is even achievable with a well done local NTP setup