I think the question was about network cards that would offload work like the IP stack so as to lighten up the nodes CPU. I do remember there being a computer gaming NIC that took this to extremes...
On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 11:48 AM, Geoffrey Jacobs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 7:06 AM, Tony Travis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello, Beowulf list. > > > > 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. > > > > It's pretty much just a Marvell Yukon. Cards such as the DGE-530T (DLink), > various Allied Telesyn cards, Linksys EG10xxV2 cards all have Yukon > chipsets, although EG10xxV3 cards have the crappy Realtek 8169. > > On Newegg, I find the: > Belkin F5D5005 > Koutech IO-PEN121 > Rosewill RC-401-EX > D-Link DGE-560T > > This is in about five minutes. Some have Linux specific comments on Newegg, > some require a trip to Google. Some are PCIe, some are PCI-X, some are 32 > bit PCI. > > Of course, you could just get Intel cards, which work very well. > > -- > MORE CORE AVAILABLE, BUT NOT FOR YOU > _______________________________________________ > Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org > To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit > http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf > > -- /* Andrew Latham LATHAMA (lay-th-ham-eh) [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] TuxTone Inc. http://www.TuxTone.com */ _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
