The sustem you suggested is GigE connected - same can be don't with the servers....
There is more cost effective 20G InfinBand solutions as well. So can chose among veraity of solutions. Amjad, you can conect me directly, I may have some spare gear. Gilad. -----Original Message----- From: Beowulf [mailto:beowulf-boun...@beowulf.org] On Behalf Of Christopher Samuel Sent: Monday, May 26, 2014 4:26 PM To: beowulf@beowulf.org Subject: Re: [Beowulf] Infiniband Support ? -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 26/05/14 22:41, John Hearns wrote: > Looking on colfax direct, there is an 18 port QDR Mellanox switch at > $3350 there is a single port QDR card for $522 > 3 metre cables for $48 > > Total of $12470 Or you could pay around $8,000 and get one of Doug's Limulus clusters in a PC case, ready built, with an HPL of 444GF and Haswell CPUs. http://basement-supercomputing.com/index.php/products/hikashop-menu-for-products-listing/product/2-limulus-hpc-200-personal-cluster-workstation That's ~3 times faster than my previous gigs first supercomputer, a Compaq AlphaServer SC40 that was #150 on the Top500 in June 2001. :-) cheers, Chris - -- Christopher Samuel Senior Systems Administrator VLSCI - Victorian Life Sciences Computation Initiative Email: sam...@unimelb.edu.au Phone: +61 (0)3 903 55545 http://www.vlsci.org.au/ http://twitter.com/vlsci -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iEYEARECAAYFAlODzUAACgkQO2KABBYQAh9kuQCdF1moTqs4QynMHgEi8iXwlujw /GMAn3dqoQxdFs+vKCdKAtCYiTovC2IS =03OP -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ 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
