[Beowulf] Infiniband modular switches

[Gilad Shainer]

> +1 for the 24 port flextronics switches. They are very cost effective
> for half bisectional networks upto 32 ports. It starts to get 
> messy after that.
> 
> I wonder how long we will be waiting for switches based on 
> the 36p asic?
> 


Mellanox announced the availability of the switch asic this week, and
can provide switch evaluation kits (36 port box and adapters with IB QDR
capability) now. My estimation is that the production switches will be
out Q3.

Gilad.