On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 7:58 PM, Nifty Tom Mitchell <niftyo...@niftyegg.com> wrote:
> > The cluster itself needs very little in the way of special services and can be > setup and managed as a homogeneous soft gooey center with a hard crusty > outside. A "simple" but fast switch with enough ports seems sufficient. > NFS traffic (fast cascading funnel tree) can be different than say MPI traffic > with all hosts communicating at the same time with all the neighbors (one big > cross bar). > Your cluster design may well shape your switch benchmark testing. Yup, I guess we need to wait for a "simple computing" switch model for HPC just like siilar offerings on the compute server side recently. I've had not much success getting any significant discounts or evaluation switches off my local Cisco Vendors. Now if only there are any Cisco powers-that-be on this mailing list............ :-) -- 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
