[Beowulf] how large can we go with 1GB Ethernet? / Re: how large of an installation have people used NFS, with?

[Mark Hahn]

>> It looks like Allied Telesis makes chassis switches now too.
>
> as well as Fortinet (I don't think Henning named them), they took over the
> WovenSystems stuff after the latter went under.

interesting - I wondered what had happened to Woven.  but Woven 
reminds me of Gnodal, which also aims to produce a smarter fabric
that can scalably switch ethernet.  the latter seems promising to me,
since they're leveraging lessons learned from Quadrics.