Re: 10-GigE for servers

[Rodrick Brown <rodrick.brown () gmail com>]

2009/5/1 Nathan Stratton <nathan () robotics net>:
> On Fri, 1 May 2009, Jason Shoemaker wrote:
>
> > My company is looking for ways to improve throughput for data transfers
> > between individual servers.  We’re exploring the creation of Etherchannels
> > using multiple server NICs, but Etherchannel seems to have the limitation
> > of
> > not supporting per-packet load-balancing, therefore limiting traffic
> > between
> > two individual hosts to 1 Gig.
>
> Have you thought about Infiniband? Dual 10 gig cards cost about $50 and 24
> port switches about $1200 on ebay. Infiniband has just a fraction of the
> latency of ethernet (even 10 get eth). You get the lowest latency if your
> application supports Infiniband, but if not you can run IP over IB.
Infiniband is dying technology..
> > <>
>
> Nathan Stratton                                CTO, BlinkMind, Inc.
> nathan at robotics.net                         nathan at blinkmind.com
> http://www.robotics.net                        http://www.blinkmind.com



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