[CentOS] 10Gbit ethernet

Thu Mar 13 15:31:24 UTC 2008
Joshua Baker-LePain <jlb17 at duke.edu>

On Thu, 13 Mar 2008 at 2:31pm, Jake Grimmett wrote

> Before I spend a great deal of money, can I ask if anyone here has experience
> of 10GBit? Dell, HP, Supermicro, IBM (etc..) seem to be pushing the NetXen
> PCIe cards, so I guess these drivers work...? As to media, although CX4 seems
> cheaper than optical, I hear the cabling is nasty. And is the magical fairy
> going to fix 10Gbit over cat6A anytime soon?
>
> any thoughts appreciated.

I've no experience with this myself (yet), but I'd highly recomend taking 
this question to the beowulf list 
<http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf> -- you're rather likely 
to find folks in situations similar to yours.

-- 
Joshua Baker-LePain
QB3 Shared Cluster Sysadmin
UCSF