for its price the Nortel Networks BayStack 5510-48 cannot be beat: http://www.nortelnetworks.com/products/02/bstk/switches/baystack_5510/index.html it has twice the port density as Cisco's 1U switches, can stack to 384 ports and has a much quicker backplane than any HP Procurve switch. for 100 nodes you could use two 48 port and one 24 port models stacked together. -mike -- hanulec@hanulec.com cell: 858.518.2647 && 516.410.4478 https://secure.hanulec.com EFnet irc && aol im: hanulec On Fri, 6 Aug 2004, Steve wrote: > I'm putting together a general lifescience based cluster (software ranging > from docking apps. to blast). Its going to consist of approximately 100 > nodes, including 2 head nodes. All nodes will be connected through GIGE, and > we will not be using high speed interconnects. > > In the past I've used Cisco switches (4000 and 6000 series), stable, reliable > and costly. > Does anyone have any recommendations? I've had mixed reviews about Extreme, > so I'd be interested in Foundy, Procurve or any systems people may have had > success with. > > Cheers, > > Steve > > > _______________________________________________ > Bioclusters maillist - Bioclusters@bioinformatics.org > https://bioinformatics.org/mailman/listinfo/bioclusters > > >