Michael Di Domenico wrote:
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
I seem to remember that the Dell switches are rebadged SMC or Netgear
units. They are great for office level work, not sure how they are for
heavy MPI work, though I have heard not such great things.
(note: we aren't paid agents of HP, or resellers of them, etc ... the
switches are just good in clusters).
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.
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