[114117] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: 10-GigE for servers
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Nathan Stratton)
Fri May 1 15:01:20 2009
Date: Fri, 1 May 2009 13:59:23 -0500 (CDT)
From: Nathan Stratton <nathan@robotics.net>
To: Jason Shoemaker <jdshoemaker@gmail.com>
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On Fri, 1 May 2009, Jason Shoemaker wrote:
> My company is looking for ways to improve throughput for data transfers
> between individual servers. We˘re exploring the creation of Etherchannels
> using multiple server NICs, but Etherchannel seems to have the limitation of
> not supporting per-packet load-balancing, therefore limiting traffic between
> two individual hosts to 1 Gig.
Have you thought about Infiniband? Dual 10 gig cards cost about $50 and 24
port switches about $1200 on ebay. Infiniband has just a fraction of the
latency of ethernet (even 10 get eth). You get the lowest latency if your
application supports Infiniband, but if not you can run IP over IB.
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Nathan Stratton CTO, BlinkMind, Inc.
nathan at robotics.net nathan at blinkmind.com
http://www.robotics.net http://www.blinkmind.com
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