Note: "permalinks" may not be as permanent as we would like,
direct links of old sources may well be a few messages off.
On Thu, 13 May 2010, Michael Iverson wrote: > You'll probably be better off looking at an infiniband-based solution. I > just picked up two dual port Mellanox 10G 8x PCIe cards and a 1m cable for > under US$200. > > Aside from just bandwidth, the other advantage 1/4 of the latency of a > gigabit ethernet setup, although my suspicion is that you might lose some of > this advantage after your packets traverse through the IPoIB layers. > > As I'm still waiting on my ebay purchases to arrive, I might come to regret > this advice once I actually try to set it up and configure it. *Caveat > Emptor.* Doubt it, I have bought ebay infiniband for our LAB and 3 production POPs. So far we have not had any problems, like you said the latency and speed is quite worth it. http://www.robotics.net/2009/07/30/infiniband/ ><> Nathan Stratton CTO, BlinkMind, Inc. nathan at robotics.net nathan at blinkmind.com http://www.robotics.net http://www.blinkmind.com