A lot of 1 GbE switches use around 15W/port so I thought 10 GbE switches would be real fire breathers. It doesn't look that way though, the power consumption cited here:
http://www.voltaire.com/NewsAndEvents/Press_Releases/press2010/Voltaire_Announces_High_Density_10_GbE_Switch_for_Efficient_Scaling_of_Cloud_Networks is "the industrys lowest power consumption of 6.3 watts/port" or 302W. I wonder what tricks they used to increase the speed to 10 GbE and drop the power consumption. In any case, in a 1U chassis that's still enough power to cook something if the ventilation shuts down, so it is a good thing it has redundant fans. I could not find a price for the Voltaire, but it isn't going to be cheap. Somewhere above $20K maybe? Regards, David Mathog mat...@caltech.edu Manager, Sequence Analysis Facility, Biology Division, Caltech _______________________________________________ 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
