On Wed, 2008-07-16 at 23:29 +0100, John Hearns wrote: > > To answer your question more directly, Panasas is a storage cluster to > complement your compute cluster. Each storage blade is connected into a > shelf (chassis) with an internal ethernet network. Each shelf is then > connected to your ethernet switch with at least 4Gbps of bandwidth.
Before I damn Panasas with faint praise, there is an option for higher bandwidth connectivity which I'd hazard a guess is in use here. And remember that's the connectivity to each one of the chassis - not to the system as a whole. _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
