[Beowulf] Good 1 Gbit switches - which ones?

[Michael Hanulec]

i'd recommend the Nortel BayStack 5510 series:

http://www.nortelnetworks.com/products/02/bstk/switches/baystack_5510/index.html

it supports 160 Gbps in one switch, 1280 Gbps when eight (8) switches are
stacked together.  in small cluster implementations you can 'stack' two
cabinets together, one in each cabinet, using their 3' cables if the
cabinets are placed next to each other.  in large implementations you can
use a combo of this two cabinet stack along w/ a four port trunk upto a
master switch.

http://www.nortelnetworks.com/products/02/bstk/switches/baystack_5510/techspecs.html

-mike

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On Fri, 21 May 2004, William Harman wrote:

> I like the HP Procurve Products:
> Procurve 2824, 24-ports of GigE (4 ports can be either copper or fiber) List
> $2,499 look for a street price around $1,970
> Procurve 2848, 48-ports of GigE (4 ports can be either copper of fiber) List
> $4,899 look for a street price around $3,855
>
> They are both 1U form factor, stackable; the 2824 has a switching capacity
> of 48Gbps and the 2848 has a switching capacity of 96Gbps
>
> Bill
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: beowulf-bounces at beowulf.org [mailto:beowulf-bounces at beowulf.org] On
> Behalf Of Konstantin Kudin
> Sent: Friday, May 21, 2004 1:50 PM
> To: beowulf at beowulf.org
> Subject: [Beowulf] Good 1 Gbit switches - which ones?
>
>  Hi there,
>
>  Can anyone offer an insight with respect to 1 Gbit switches for a Beowulf
> cluster? There are all these reports that a lot of inexpensive switches on
> the market tend to choke under heavy internal traffic. Can anyone suggest an
> affordable switch with good internal bandwidth, which was tested under heavy
> load, and actually worked well?
>
>  Thanks!
>  Konstantin
>
>
>
>
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