Todd Lipcon wrote:
Hi Stephen,
The true answer depends on the types of jobs you're running. As a back of
the envelope calculation I might figure something like this:
...
So, the simple answer is that 4-6Gbps is most likely just fine for most
practical jobs. If you want to be extra safe, many inexpensive switches can
operate in a "stacked" configuration where the bandwidth between them is
essentially backplane speed. That should scale you to 96 nodes with plenty
of headroom.
Hi Todd,
Many thanks for the detailed response - I understand it all depends on
my specific job and that the usual YMMV caveat applies but your figures
are very helpful to give me some ballpark figures to play with.
From what I can see, the inexpensive switches use add-on modules in
stacking configurations and those add-on modules are reasonably pricey
(especially if you want to stack switches with 10 Gbps links rather than
1 Gbps links) so the ballpark number is pretty useful from a budgeting
perspective.
Thanks,
-stephen
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