Edward Ned Harvey <[email protected]> writes: > In some quick looking around, I see infiniband cards, 2x-4x faster than 10G > ether (that is, 20-40Gbit) and 100x lower latency than 10G ether, for around > the same price as 10G ether. While that sounds immediately attractive, the > solution that would be more attractive would be a cheaper card. Say ... > 8Gbit for $100.
I wouldn't use them for production, but my understanding is that used 10G infiniband have an ebay value of under $200 each. 10G infiniband switches also show up pretty cheap. I'd be interested in your results, if you go through with it. I've considered doing the same myself, but I have been burnt before by going "enterprise" when I couldn't afford the support contract, so for now I'm sticking with 1g Ethernet... 10g infiniband is a lot faster and a lot cheaper than 10G Ethernet. _______________________________________________ Tech mailing list [email protected] https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
