No, still "fail", not "semi-fail"
Funny to call it "semi-fail" when you provide a link to a Fibre-Channel adapter for $800.
How many Fibre-Channel clusters are there? (Not clusters using Fibre-Channel for storage - there are a lot. But clusters using Fibre-Channel for IPC....)
Look back a bit, linux2mac made several specific claims about using Apples and T-Bolt for clustering - all of them shown to be ludicrous since none of the systems proposed can support daisy-chaining.
But, still "crickets" if we're waiting for a response from her.
And, T-Bolt is not "just a high bandwidth cable" in the sense of being a general purpose network interconnect (or a special-purpose inter-processor link like InfiniBand). It's a extension of an internal bus to external cabinets, mostly master (CPU) - slave (IO device) except for limited peer-to-peer capability between specifically designed peers.
The only time multiple masters works is in porn videos.... Sharing slaves is a delicate situation.
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These links about T-Bolt clustering are early mental masturbation exercises by people who didn't yet realize what T-Bolt really was. (And their not understanding T-Bolt is understandable, since the early information about T-Bolt was very high on hype and very low on facts - and many of those links are quite old.)
To be fair.... Semi-Fail
but it does show promiss.
Yes Thunderbolt is really just a high bandwidth cable but you can put a cluster interconnect on the far end instead of the CPU end. Which means someone could build a hub with namespace translation hardware for each machine embedded in the hub instead of the machine but no one has yet.
Funny to call it "semi-fail" when you provide a link to a Fibre-Channel adapter for $800.
How many Fibre-Channel clusters are there? (Not clusters using Fibre-Channel for storage - there are a lot. But clusters using Fibre-Channel for IPC....)
Look back a bit, linux2mac made several specific claims about using Apples and T-Bolt for clustering - all of them shown to be ludicrous since none of the systems proposed can support daisy-chaining.
But, still "crickets" if we're waiting for a response from her.
And, T-Bolt is not "just a high bandwidth cable" in the sense of being a general purpose network interconnect (or a special-purpose inter-processor link like InfiniBand). It's a extension of an internal bus to external cabinets, mostly master (CPU) - slave (IO device) except for limited peer-to-peer capability between specifically designed peers.
The only time multiple masters works is in porn videos.... Sharing slaves is a delicate situation.
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These links about T-Bolt clustering are early mental masturbation exercises by people who didn't yet realize what T-Bolt really was. (And their not understanding T-Bolt is understandable, since the early information about T-Bolt was very high on hype and very low on facts - and many of those links are quite old.)
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