On Thu, 10 Apr 2008 at 1:06pm, Tony Travis wrote
I've been using 3COM 3C2000 Gigabit NIC's in our Beowulf cluster since I
built it. I'm very happy with them, but 3COM have now discontinued the
product:
http://www.3com.com/products/en_US/detail.jsp?tab=features&sku=3C996B-T&pathtype=purchase
I'd be grateful for comments or advice about alternative 'server' grade NIC's
that, like the 3C2000, can offload some of the burden the host CPU would
otherwise have to deal with. At present, I use the 3C2000 in all the servers
and PXE-booted compute nodes in our Beowulf, and I have a few spares, but I
want to find an alternative NIC for two new projects.
Whenever discussions of server/cluster NICs come up, the Intel e1000
boards tend to have the most positive comments.
--
Joshua Baker-LePain
QB3 Shared Cluster Sysadmin
UCSF
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