RE: [CentOS] 10Gbit ethernet

2008-03-13 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Jake Grimmett wrote: If I could ask question about 10Gbit ethernet We have a 70 node cluster built on Centos 5.1, using NFS to mount user home areas. At the moment the network is a bottleneck, and it's going to get worse as we add another 112 CPUs in the form of two blade servers.

Re: [CentOS] 10Gbit ethernet

2008-03-13 Thread Jason
Where abouts are you maxing out? I assume it's not to the nodes but rather to the NFS head. If that's the case, you might want to look at a different, somewhat more time tested approach of standing up additional NFS heads (as you already mentioned). Having said that, we are currently using 10g

Re: [CentOS] 10Gbit ethernet

2008-03-13 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Thu, 13 Mar 2008 at 2:31pm, Jake Grimmett wrote Before I spend a great deal of money, can I ask if anyone here has experience of 10GBit? Dell, HP, Supermicro, IBM (etc..) seem to be pushing the NetXen PCIe cards, so I guess these drivers work...? As to media, although CX4 seems cheaper than