Louis-
Yes. It's Colfax that I'm dealing with right now.
Billy
-----Original Message-----
From: Louis [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Thursday, October 20, 2011 4:58 PM
To: Barott, William Chauncey
Cc: Matt Dexter; casper
Subject: Re: [casper] 10 GbE cable and switches
Hello all,
First of all, thank you for your quick replies. This
has helped a lot.
As for the CX4 cables, I'm going to follow Luis' advice and ask for
a quote from Colfax for now and see where that takes me.
Matt: Setting some sort of trading agreement seems like a nice
idea. I'll also need to ask a higher authority to see if this is
possible. I really appreciate your generosity on this matter.
As for the switch, I'm also going to follow Luis' advice...I don't
think I need a switch for now. I was only looking into what the cost
would (and what model I'd get) if I did need to get us one in the
future.
William: What distributor did you quote recently? Was it Colfax
as Luis mentioned?
10Gbe Network adapter: I'm also needing to get a network card for
this project. Currently the one I'm looking at claims support for Red
Hat...but explicity for CentOS (which is what I'm running). Since CentOS
is based off of RH I think it should be safe to assume that the card
should work with my OS.
On 10/20/2011 03:31 PM, Barott, William Chauncey wrote:
> They are, at least through distributors - I recently quoted a XG2000C
> and XG0448, and am in the midst of generating a PO for a XG0448 + CX4
> modules for a small project.
>
> Billy
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected]
> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Matt Dexter
> Sent: Thursday, October 20, 2011 3:54 PM
> To: casper
> Subject: Re: [casper] 10 GbE cable and switches
>
>
> Hi,
>
> Much of the information I've entered at
> https://casper.berkeley.edu/wiki/Equipment_Cables
> on the CX4 cabling the UCB's Radio Astronomy Lab still applies.
> The WLGore IBN6800-3 part number is the one we've use for
> Roach1 to Fujitsu switches.
>
> We have a number of 3m WLGore copper cables we no longer use.
> I'd need to verify with my management but perhaps we can arrange
> a trade or sale or something...
>
> The Fujitsu switches seem to work well. But they, as well as
> the CX4 interface more generally, are getting pretty old.
> I don't know if Futjitsu is even still selling CX4 switches.
>
> Matt
>
> On Thu, 20 Oct 2011, Louis wrote:
>
>> Hello all,
>>
>> I've been looking into purchasing a 10GbE cable for a
> ROACH
>> board. It has a Virtex 5 on it (I believe they're reffered to as
ROACH
> 1
>> boards on the CASPER site). I would just like some advice with this.
I
> was
>> able to find a 3 meter cable at this site:
>> http://stordis.com/catalogue/product/s=wl-gore-sdgcabcx4283. I would
> like
>> someone's 2 cents concerning the validity of this product, if you
> will. On
>> another note, does anyone have any recommendations concerning the
> Fujitsu
>> switches? I wasn't able to find them on the site, but a little bit of
>> Googling revealed that they could rack up a price. Which switches are
> other
>> people using for this set up?
>>
>> P.S. I plan on first using the cable and switch for the iADC tutorial
> (number
>> 2, I believe) and then to move on to bigger and better things :)
>>
>>
>> Thanks in advance,
>>
>> -- Louis Dartez
>> (956) 372-5812
>> Arecibo Remote Command Center Researcher
>> Center for Gravitational Wave Astronomy
>> University of Texas at Brownsville
>>
>>
>>
>
--
-- Louis Dartez
(956) 372-5812
Arecibo Remote Command Center Researcher
Center for Gravitational Wave Astronomy
University of Texas at Brownsville
