Re: [Beowulf] Gigabit switch recommendations

2006-03-31 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Wed, 29 Mar 2006 at 7:36pm, Yaroslav Halchenko wrote On Wed, 29 Mar 2006, Joel Jaeggli wrote: smc and dell (and asante and a few others) all resell the same managed switches made by accton... to be exact accton is a part of SMC http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SMC_Networks Well maybe that

Re: [Beowulf] Gigabit switch recommendations

2006-03-31 Thread Yaroslav Halchenko
Hi Joshua, I am pretty much in the same situation as yours -- about to acquire a switch to handle our NFS-loaded cluster needs (which will have 30 nodes soon) I presented my findings and asked for recommendations on this list not long ago http://www.beowulf.org/archive/2006-February/014998.html u

[Beowulf] pbs_sched on multihomed system

2006-03-31 Thread Warren Turkal
Is there a way to specify to which IP pbs_sched should bind? It seems to bind to the IP associated with the hostname of the system, by default. wt -- Warren Turkal, Research Associate III/Systems Administrator Colorado State University, Dept. of Atmospheric Science __

Re: [Beowulf] Gigabit switch recommendations

2006-03-31 Thread Tony Ladd
We recently tested 48 port gigabit switches from Extreme (summit-48t) and Force10 (s50). We found the Extreme networks switch performed better than the Force10 when all 48 ports were active. The s50 appeared to "choke" at certain message sizes, leading to erratic rates and overall reduced performa

Re: [Beowulf] Gigabit switch recommendations

2006-03-31 Thread Yaroslav Halchenko
to be exact accton is a part of SMC http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SMC_Networks In 1997, SMC Networks became a subsidiary of Accton Technology Corporation, who bought the rights to the SMC Networks name. Standard Microsystems now goes by Standard Microsystems Corporation (SMSC). indeed HP I believe