[38842] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: opinions on routers/switches for parallel clusters
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathan Disher)
Mon Jun 18 15:38:16 2001
Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2001 12:38:36 -0700 (PDT)
From: Jonathan Disher <jdisher@ipix.com>
To: Albert Meyer <albert@waller.net>
Cc: "Michael C . Wu" <keichii@peorth.iteration.net>, nanog@nanog.org
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On Mon, 18 Jun 2001, Albert Meyer wrote:
>
> Having dealt with Lucent I can warn you away from them (as if I need to
> nowadays). Having dealt with Cabletron I can warn you away from Riverstone.
> The only company you mention which has consistently provided excellent
> products and support (and never screwed me around or lied to me) is Cisco.
> Their stuff is a bit overpriced, but <cliche> you get what you pay for.
> </cliche>
I've got a pair of ExtremeNetworks BlackDiamond 6808's running my
production datacenter installation (2 8 port gig blades, 1 12 port gig
blade, and 4 32 port 100TX blades each), and I love them to death. They
just work (tm).
-j
> At 11:15 AM 6/18/01 -0500, keichii@freebsd.org wrote:
>
> >Hi Everyone,
> >
> >We are an educational institution looking into building
> >a scientific computing cluster that has 128-256 nodes
> >interconnected by gigE. The outward connection would
> >be the site FDDI ring.
> >
> >The problem is that we want to experiment with the topology
> >as well as the computing part. :) And I am at a loss
> >as to what gigE switch and router we should use.
> >
> >The requirements are:
> >1. ability to morph the topology at will
> >2. fast (doh!)
> >3. Layer 1-4 is required (up to layer 7 would be nice)
> >4. load balancing
> >
> >Which companies' products do you like? (*Barring* Cisco)
> >[If you cannot state your opinion publicly, please send me a
> >private reply. I appreciate it and will keep it confidential.)
> >
> >I am looking at these companies:
> >Lucent
> >Foundey Networks
> >River Stone
> >Alteon
> >Extreme Networks
> >Ericcson
> >
> >Would the people who have had experience with these products
> >tell me what they feel? Thank you very much.
> >
> >Michael
> >--
> >+-----------------------------------------------------------+
> >| keichii@iteration.net | keichii@freebsd.org |
> >| http://iteration.net/~keichii | Yes, BSD is a conspiracy. |
> >+-----------------------------------------------------------+
>
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