Steve,<br><br>Depends on your app. Trunking just allows alternate paths for data: you're not going to be able to push 4 Gb/s over a single link on that bond. Rather, if you have multiple connections all firing data around, you can approach that bandwidth or 4 gigs/s.
<br><br>So: if you're pushing huge arrays of data around not very often, 10 GbE will be much faster, but if you're throwing a zillion smaller sized messages to lots of different hosts at once, you will definatly get some usage out of that trunk. At least, this is how I understand it.
<br><br>-Jack Carrozzo<br><br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 7/3/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Steve Cousins</b> <<a href="mailto:cousins@umit.maine.edu">cousins@umit.maine.edu</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<br>We are purchasing a NAS NFS server for our cluster and I'm wondering if a<br>10 GbE card would give us twice the performance than say 4 trunked 1 GbE<br>lines. Given that the NAS itself has the performance to drive this, do
<br>any of you have real-world numbers comparing this sort of thing?<br><br>Thanks,<br><br>Steve<br><br>--<br>______________________________________________________________________<br> Steve Cousins, Ocean Modeling Group Email:
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