I would have to agree. I have Netgears in my lab now and for light use they seem to be okay, but once you run a communications heavy MPI job over them they seem to fall down
On Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 5:32 PM, Joe Landman <land...@scalableinformatics.com> wrote: > David Mathog wrote: >> >> Which of these would be good for a cluster? Reliability is more >> important here than speed, not that I'm looking for slow. It should not >> burn up if the jobs move data through all ports near full capacity for >> hours or days at a time! >> >> NETGEAR JGS524 D-Link DGS-1024D SMC EZ Switch SMCGS24 HP J9078A >> >> The D-link and Netgear are within $10 of each other after the rebate on >> the latter, both are about $60 less than the SMC and HP. > > I am biased. Get the HP. > > -- > Joseph Landman, Ph.D > Founder and CEO > Scalable Informatics Inc. > email: land...@scalableinformatics.com > web : http://scalableinformatics.com > http://scalableinformatics.com/jackrabbit > phone: +1 734 786 8423 x121 > fax : +1 866 888 3112 > cell : +1 734 612 4615 > _______________________________________________ > 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 > _______________________________________________ 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
