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Re:Rosetta: The Engine Behind Cray’s Slingshot Exascale-Era ... by gnufx on Wednesday May 06, 2020 @05:40AM (#23089276)
It's odd to class slingshot/dragonfly as less custom for HPC than even infiniband (and Mellanox is all-out on HPC-specific "offload"). Other interconnects designed for HPC include Bull's BXI, Fujitsu's Tofu, and European stuff, though they're even as common as Cray's, and I don't know how they compare.
Re:Rosetta: The Engine Behind Cray’s Slingshot Exascale-Era ... by wmf on Wednesday May 06, 2020 @01:10PM (#23093575)
I agree that Infiniband is off-the-shelf technology at this point, but previous Cray interconnects like SeaStar/Gemini/Aries were 100% custom and had no interop with standards.
Re:Rosetta: The Engine Behind Cray’s Slingshot Exascale-Era ... by gnufx on Wednesday May 06, 2020 @02:46PM (#23094790)
Right, if that's all custom means.