On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 11:28 AM, Gerry Creager <gerry.crea...@tamu.edu> wrote: > silicon, if I recall correctly. I've several S50s in my data center, hammer > the fool out of them, and am happy.
Thanks Gerry! I have been getting many great reviews on Force10. Maybe I will seriously consider them. >Prior to them, we used Foundry > EdgeIron1G switches for our gigabit-connected clusters. They worked well. > For our newer gigabit-connected cluster we went with the HP 5412zl, and > have been happy. > > I'd not recommend cheap switches: They can bite you if you go too cheap and > result in poor MPI and I/O performance. On the other end of the spectrum is Cisco. Their gear seems at such a huge $$ premium with respect to the other vendors and when I ask why the best answer I get is "Cisco is the market leader in switches". They won't show me which of their parameters make a Cisco switch better than the rest. -- Rahul _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org sponsored by Penguin Computing To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
