On Thu, 1 Nov 2007, Christopher Hawkins wrote: <cut>
But given the huge price premium for IB networks, I would think that a GAMMA translator would put GlusterFS way over the top as a price to performance leader in the super storage market. We're talking about getting serious I/O out of plain old gig ethernet! Opinions?
Well I guess I don't see why it is needed, I mean, infiniband does not cost much at all on the used market. I just bought 16 dual 10 gig cards for an avg cost of $83 including shipping from ebay and 25 port and 4 10 gig switches cost me $1350 each. I don't think that is a lot to pay get 8 servers with 2 switches in two pops. The only downside is that gluster is just not ready for production network, so I am now looking at lustre.
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