On Tue, 14 Nov 2006, Jones de Andrade wrote: > Well, I've found some discussions within this list about brands of switches, > and some about network card brands also. > > We came to a question here, in the cluster we are planning: how usefull are > the, now so common, onboard gigabit networks (even dual networks) that are > shipped in the motherboards? Great, bood, bad or terrible performance?
Almost all of the on-board Gigabit Ethernet NICs are very good. They are integrated into the primary chipset - giving them good access to main memory and - reducing the opportunity for vendors to use the cheapest NIC chip. You won't find advanced offload features, but you do get good, solid non-quirky performance. A secondary effect is that there are now very few NIC families, and those vendors are motivated to support/control their drivers. The network device driver challenge of a decade ago, supporting hundreds of designs, is all but gone. > stability issues? Much concern about it's use for clusters? Is there any > example, or benchmark available of different onboard network chips in any > (cluster?) application? > > Thanks a lot in advance, > > Sincerally yours, > > Jones > _______________________________________________ > Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org > To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit > http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf > -- Donald Becker [EMAIL PROTECTED] Scyld Software Scyld Beowulf cluster systems 914 Bay Ridge Road, Suite 220 www.scyld.com Annapolis MD 21403 410-990-9993 _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
