> MPI? Or one of the other "clustering" methodologies, I would guess.
Hoplon has said that some of it is Globus based, other parts are MPICH. > I still think that one technology that would be fantastic is one that my > boss insists IBM has. He says that IBM has a System z system on a card > that can be put in a blade server. This same server can also accommodate > pSeries and xSeries cards so that you can communicate between them on > the server's memory bus (like a hipersocket does between LPARs). Sounds like he's thinking about the P390. It's no longer made, though, and only supported 9672 G5-class instruction sets (eg, no zArch mode). Wouldn't be that hard to do, though, given the smaller z9BC MCM. You'd probably have to do a double or triple-wide blade to accommodate the cooling requirements, though; the MCMs run a LOT hotter than your average Intel chip.
