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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Your Beowulf project page mentions you used Kingston Technology products for your cluster. Brahma. A quick serch shows that thay are priced about right. Would you not recommend them on your new cluster ?<br>
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cheers,<br>
Jim Parker<br>
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Sailboat racing is not a matter of life and death .... It is far more important than that !!!</font>
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<td><font size=1 face="sans-serif"><b>"Robert G. Brown" <rgb@phy.duke.edu></b></font>
<br><font size=1 face="sans-serif">Sent by: beowulf-admin@beowulf.org</font>
<p><font size=1 face="sans-serif">04/25/01 03:22 PM</font>
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<br><font size=1 face="sans-serif"> To: Martin Siegert <siegert@sfu.ca></font>
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<br><font size=1 face="sans-serif"> Subject: Re: Cheap, good ethernet cards?</font></table>
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<br><font size=2 face="Courier New">On Wed, 25 Apr 2001, Martin Siegert wrote:<br>
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> In short:<br>
> - RTL8139's are horrible<br>
> - Tulip cards are ok<br>
> - 3c905's are good.<br>
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> I'd rather downgrade the processor speed soemwhat and use 905s than<br>
> save the the few bucks on the NIC. With respect to NICs it seems that you<br>
> get what you pay for ...<br>
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> Martin<br>
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This matches my own experiences, although I would have rated old-style<br>
tulips as good as well. I'd settle for a tulip-based card in the right<br>
price range at this point, as you've put your finger dead on my fixed<br>
budget choice -- cheaper card or downgrade from 1.33 GHz to 1.2 or<br>
accept a slower FSB. Or monkey around with diskless/diskful<br>
configurations and so forth, which would likely work fine but takes more<br>
of my time and work. The problem is that this is about a 10% clock<br>
improvement and my applications are mostly CPU bound -- I really want to<br>
avoid an RTL card, but the 3c905 won't win much for me relative to that<br>
extra clock on a 266 FSB motherboard.<br>
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rgb<br>
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Robert G. Brown http://www.phy.duke.edu/~rgb/<br>
Duke University Dept. of Physics, Box 90305<br>
Durham, N.C. 27708-0305<br>
Phone: 1-919-660-2567 Fax: 919-660-2525 email:rgb@phy.duke.edu<br>
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