Wow, I didn't know it was that inexpensive. I've looked before and I don't recall ever seeing deals like that... Guess I need to look harder. ;-) However, I would still offer the following points: Gig-e is *already* built into every server. A low latency ethernet translator might be an elegant software solution to what has always been a "hardware" problem. If you can solve the problem in software instead of relying on specialized hardware, shouldn't you? Chris <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. ><> Nathan Stratton CTO, 264 Networks, LLC nathan at robotics.net nathan at 264networks.com http://www.robotics.net http://www.264networks.com
