[114162] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: 10-GigE for servers
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Rodrick Brown)
Sun May 3 09:54:25 2009
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.2.00.0905011351100.24670@bart.robotics.net>
Date: Sun, 3 May 2009 09:54:05 -0400
From: Rodrick Brown <rodrick.brown@gmail.com>
To: Nathan Stratton <nathan@robotics.net>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org, Jason Shoemaker <jdshoemaker@gmail.com>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
2009/5/1 Nathan Stratton <nathan@robotics.net>:
> On Fri, 1 May 2009, Jason Shoemaker wrote:
>
>> My company is looking for ways to improve throughput for data transfers
>> between individual servers. =A0We=92re exploring the creation of Etherch=
annels
>> using multiple server NICs, but Etherchannel seems to have the limitatio=
n
>> 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 2=
4
> 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.
>
Infiniband is dying technology..
>
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