Re: available resource declaration language(s)

[Greg Lindahl <lindahl@conservativecomputer.com>]

On Mon, Mar 19, 2001 at 02:09:14PM -0600, David L. Nicol wrote:

> Broadcast scales better than p2p -- it is p2p that floods a large network.

Generalizations are always wrong. Your statement is not true for
networks like Myrinet that have to fake broadcasts, and it's also not
necessarily true for highly switched ethernet networks -- there it
depends on the details of what's broadcast. N tiny broadcast packets
take up a lot more bandwidth than 1 larger packet containing all the
info. And then there's congestion...

-- g

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