Brian Oborn wrote:

A quick side question. Is it possible to use IB as a cross-over with no switch? If I had just 2 fat nodes could I connect the HCAs directly to

Yes.

each other and avoid the switch costs? Could this be extended to ring or hypercube topologies?

Yeah ... but a switch rapidly makes sense. One link going down would "quench" your ring ala FDDI.


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