Hi Mark,
Mark Hahn wrote:
Hi Beowulfers,
have you had any experience using 10gbaseT yet?
No switch available with 10G-BaseT ports yet (there are not many 10GigE
switches to begin with). There may be new products by the end of 2007
with such ports, but I am not optimistic about general availability.
Today, it's CX-4 water hoses for clusters and LR fibers for general
networking.
I happened on a media story about how quite a few vendors have recently
intro'd support for it. the only nics mentioned were the heavyweight
encumbered-with-TOE kind - on them at least,
the article mentioned 20-25W dissipation. (which doesn't seem
like a big deal - about a disk and a half, fraction of a cpu,
or a tenth of a GPU :)
20-25W is a lot. It's too much to land on a motherboard (that's one of
the argument against TOE) and it's way too much for dense switches. It's
going to get better eventually, but it's going to take time. I would
expect cheaper (quad) fiber solutions sooner than pervasive 10G-BaseT.
Patrick
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Patrick Geoffray
Myricom, Inc.
http://www.myri.com
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