<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 7:06 AM, Tony Travis <<a href="mailto:ajt@rri.sari.ac.uk">ajt@rri.sari.ac.uk</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Hello, Beowulf list.<br>
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I've been using 3COM 3C2000 Gigabit NIC's in our Beowulf cluster since I built it. I'm very happy with them, but 3COM have now discontinued the product:<br>
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<a href="http://www.3com.com/products/en_US/detail.jsp?tab=features&sku=3C996B-T&pathtype=purchase" target="_blank">http://www.3com.com/products/en_US/detail.jsp?tab=features&sku=3C996B-T&pathtype=purchase</a><br>
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I'd be grateful for comments or advice about alternative 'server' grade NIC's that, like the 3C2000, can offload some of the burden the host CPU would otherwise have to deal with. At present, I use the 3C2000 in all the servers and PXE-booted compute nodes in our Beowulf, and I have a few spares, but I want to find an alternative NIC for two new projects.<font color="#888888"><br>
</font></blockquote></div><br>It's pretty much just a Marvell Yukon. Cards such as the DGE-530T (DLink), various Allied Telesyn cards, Linksys EG10xxV2 cards all have Yukon chipsets, although EG10xxV3 cards have the crappy Realtek 8169.<br>
<br>On Newegg, I find the:<br>Belkin F5D5005<br>Koutech IO-PEN121<br>Rosewill RC-401-EX<br>D-Link DGE-560T<br><br>This is in about five minutes. Some have Linux specific comments on Newegg, some require a trip to Google. Some are PCIe, some are PCI-X, some are 32 bit PCI.<br>
<br>Of course, you could just get Intel cards, which work very well.<br clear="all"><br>-- <br>MORE CORE AVAILABLE, BUT NOT FOR YOU
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