Rahul Nabar wrote:
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.
With the POSSIBLE exception of the newer Nexus line from Cisco, I can't
think of a reason I'd put a Cisco-labeled switch in my data center...
except for a Linksys for non-critical applications.
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