Any data on latency? The 4108gl claims <6us for 64 byte packets, which is important if you want to make use of tcp offload adapters later on. Most of these rise to about 20-30 us later on. Michael Hanulec wrote: > > 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 >> >> >> > _______________________________________________ > Bioclusters maillist - Bioclusters@bioinformatics.org > https://bioinformatics.org/mailman/listinfo/bioclusters -- Joseph Landman, Ph.D Scalable Informatics LLC, email: landman@scalableinformatics.com web : http://www.scalableinformatics.com phone: +1 734 612 4615