Myrinet Network Architecture

CPU

CPU

Memory

Memory Bus

Network

PCI Bridge

PCI Bus

Memory

DMA

DMA

DMA

DMA

NIC

PCI bus to network ratio ? 1:1

memcpy() unacceptable

Mem to PCI bus ratio ? 10:1

memcpy() OK

CPU

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