Hardware & Technology Comparisons

Myricom Myrinet Products

Myrinet-2000 Myri-10G
Full-duplex data rate for the links, NIC ports, and switch ports 2+2 Gigabits/s 10+10 Gigabits/s
Link Cables LC-connector duplex multimode fiber to 200m Selected 10-Gigabit Ethernet cables, copper and fiber
NICs Single-port and dual-port PCI-X Single-port PCI-Express, dual-protocol 10G Myrinet or 10G Ethernet
Switches Based on 16-port and 32-port crossbar switches Based on 16-port crossbar switches
Switch Networks Up to 256 host ports with a single "Network in a Box" component, and up to tens of thousands of hosts by combining these components Up to 128 host ports with a single "Network in a Box" component, and up to tens of thousands of hosts by combining these components
Interoperability Gigabit Ethernet 10-Gigabit Ethernet
Myrinet Software Support Myrinet Express (MX-2G) or GM-2 Myrinet Express (MX-10G)
MX or MPI Latency 3.2 µs (D-card NICs)

2.6 µs (E- or F-card NICs)
2 µs (PCI-Express NICs)
MX Unidirectional Data Rate 247 MBytes/s (one-port NICs)

495 MBytes/s (two-port NICs)
1.2 GBytes/s
TCP/IP (MX ethernet emulation) Data Rate 1.98 Gbits/s (one-port NICs)

3.95 Gbits/s (two-port NICs)
9.6 Gbits/s


Further Information

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