Network RAM for Beowulf
    Mark Hahn 
    hahn at physics.mcmaster.ca
       
    Thu Aug 16 07:52:23 PDT 2001
    
    
  
> >    we as a group of four students are *also* thinking
> > of implementing Network RAM for a beowulf cluster
> > (assuming 100Mbps Ethernet ) whereby each node in the
I'm always puzzled why people want to keep trying this:
have you considered the fairly breathtaking latency of 
"sharing" pages over a net?  do you really have apps that can 
tolerate that kind of latency?
    
    
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