…and cheap switches with a couple of 10G ports and 24 1G ports from folks like Dell.
On Oct 31, 2013, at 8:06 PM, Marcus D. Leech <[email protected]> wrote: > On 10/31/2013 04:54 PM, rmsrms1987 wrote: >> Hi Everyone, >> >> I recently discovered that Ettus offer a way of synchronizing up the eight >> USRPs with the following clock distribution system: >> >> https://www.ettus.com/product/details/OctoClock-G >> <https://www.ettus.com/product/details/OctoClock-G> >> >> Out of curiosity, how would one be able to connect and sample with eight >> separate USRPs with one host computer. Would you need eight separate >> ethernet ports? That seems like more than what a typical motherboard would >> be able to handle. >> >> Or can the USRPs all be connected to a server, which can be individually >> accessed through the host computer? >> >> Understanding how to do this will be extremely beneficial in order to gather >> some ideas for a project. >> >> Thank you very much in advance, >> Rob >> >> > You could have all of them on a single port and a 1GiGe switch, depending on > aggregate sample rate. > > But another thing to be concerned about is how much processing your computer > can handle from 8 sample streams. > > There are also quad-port 1GiGe cards available out there. > > > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss-gnuradio mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnuradio _______________________________________________ Discuss-gnuradio mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnuradio
