Re: [casper] Intel 10 GbE card

Thu, 13 May 2010 00:45:38 -0700

Here is a copy of an response from Mike Memmott (from Fujitsu), along with a spreadsheet of some of the cards they've tested. It's an excerpt from an email conversation we had about 10GbE NICs. Note that this is pretty old now (Oct 2008), but might still be of value. 

I use the Chelsio cards almost exclusively now.

Jason


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FWIW, I'd mentioned I would send you a snapshot of the NIC market I did a 
couple of months ago.  By the end of the year we'll have at least 15
vendors shipping product!
CX4 dual port cards seem popular but they do not perform. Even when you run only one port they don't seem to do as well as the single port cards. 
Also, if running only one port, your paying for hardware and energy
without benefit.

The NetEffect NE020 CX4 and Neterion X3110-CX4. NICs might be worth
looking at. Our sister division, Fujitsu Computer Systems, OEM's the
Neterion NIC as are most of the major system houses, e.g., Sun, IBM, HP, 
etc.
.
I believe I have a couple of each Vendors' NICs in my lab your welcome to borrow for evaluation. If I'm mistaken, I'm positive I can arrange eval 
units on no-cost PO's for you.
I know I have some Intel NICs but I would suggest looking at the NetEffect 
and Neterion products first. Since last Friday, I've had a few
conversations with customers who've used Intel NICs and they weren't
impressed with the new generation cards.  Regardless, those cards are
available to you as well as NetXen's product.
I don't know what performance figures you saw on the Chelsio NIC but I'd 
suggest checking the level of firmware used for evaluation.  Chelsio's
made a lot of improvements over the last year. Their firmware revisions 
have been a moving target for the last 9 months.

Best regards,

Mike Memmott
Sales Engineer
408.746.3228  Office/Lab
510.673.1561  Cell phone
[email protected]

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On 12 May 2010, at 21:06, Gregory Desvignes wrote:


Hi all.

Has anyone ever tested a 10 GbE card from Intel, like the Intel
EXPX9502CX4 ? In the Casper wiki, that might be out-of-date, there is
only a myricom and a chelsio card which have been tested so far.

Thanks for any info!

Greg

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