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Re: [Gluster-devel] really interesting interconnect
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nathan |
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Re: [Gluster-devel] really interesting interconnect |
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Thu, 1 Nov 2007 21:34:53 -0500 (CDT) |
On Thu, 1 Nov 2007, Christopher Hawkins wrote:
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But given the huge
price premium for IB networks, I would think that a GAMMA translator would
put GlusterFS way over the top as a price to performance leader in the super
storage market. We're talking about getting serious I/O out of plain old gig
ethernet! Opinions?
Well I guess I don't see why it is needed, I mean, infiniband does not
cost much at all on the used market. I just bought 16 dual 10 gig cards
for an avg cost of $83 including shipping from ebay and 25 port and 4 10
gig switches cost me $1350 each. I don't think that is a lot to pay get 8
servers with 2 switches in two pops. The only downside is that gluster is
just not ready for production network, so I am now looking at lustre.
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