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Bug#114992: ITP: Myricom GM Message Passing System



Previously Francesco Lovergine wrote:
> GM is the native support software for message passing with Myricom
> high performance network interfaces (Myrinet). 
> Those kind of PCI interfaces are available for
> many Unices and archs, and supply very high throughputs (up to 2Gb
> for a 66Mhz/64bit bus) for high performance computing. 

Please note that the most interesting part about myrinet is not
the bandwith at all, but the fact that it is a very low latency
network which makes it excellent for distributed computing.

Wichert.

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