[Beowulf] gigabit ethernet: horrible performance for 0 byte messages

[Chris Samuel]

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On Fri, 13 Feb 2004 02:22 pm, Brent M. Clements wrote:

> The best switch that we have found both in price and speed are the GigE
> Switches from Dell. We use them in a few of our test clusters and smaller
> clusters. They are actually pretty good performers and top even some of
> the cisco switches.

That's bizzare, the GigE switches I've seen in a Dell cluster *were* rebadged 
Cisco switches.  Even had to do the usual "PortFast" routine in IOS to get 
PXE booting to work.

Chris
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 Christopher Samuel - (03)9925 4751 - VPAC Systems & Network Admin
 Victorian Partnership for Advanced Computing http://www.vpac.org/
 Bldg 91, 110 Victoria Street, Carlton South, VIC 3053, Australia

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