On Wed, 17 Mar 2010, Gordan Bobic wrote:
Have you done testing with 1Gb networking? Do your storage boxes have enough CPU resource to handle a 10x increase in bandwidth? What about disk I/O? You'll need some pretty fat storage nodes to justify going to 10Gb.
Actually, we have picked up all our 10 gig infiniband gear on ebay for an avg of $1K for a 24 port switch, $35 for dual port cards, and $20 for cables. At that rate it has been easy to justify 10 gig infiniband. The latency improvements are significant.
<>
Nathan Stratton CTO, BlinkMind, Inc. nathan at robotics.net nathan at blinkmind.com http://www.robotics.net http://www.blinkmind.com
