On Wednesday 23 September 2009, Rahul Nabar wrote: > On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 5:28 PM, Gerry Creager <gerry.crea...@tamu.edu> wrote: > > Most of that bandwidth is in marketing... Sorry, but it's not a high > > performance switch. > > Well, how does one figure out what exactly is a "hih performance > switch"?
IMHO 1G Ethernet won't be enough ("high performance" or not). Get yourself
some cheap IB HCAs and a switch. The only chance you have with Ethernet is to
run some sort of bypass proto (OpenMX etc.) and tune your NICs.
/Peter
> I've found this an exceedingly hard task. Like the OP posted
> the Dell 6248 is rated to give more than a fully subscribed backbone
> capacity. Nor I do not know any good third party test lab nor do I
> know any switch load testing benchmarks that'd take a switch through
> its paces.
>
> So, how does one go about selecting a good switch? "The most expensive
> the better" is somewhat a unsatisfying option!
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