On Tue, Feb 13, 2007 at 12:46:49AM -0500, Mark Hahn wrote: > isn't photonics still at the hand-waving stage? I was just noticing how 10G > XFP's have not gotten much cheaper over the past couple years.
Yes, but there are several companies about to produce lower-cost optical and active copper cables for IB. Since "4 wire" ethernet is pretty similar to IB, presumably they'll see a price drop, too. We were showing several of these technologies working at SC last November. Also note that 4 gig FC is the same data rate as DDR IB. Now what the final costs will be, who knows? -- greg _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
