2009/5/1 Nathan Stratton <nat...@robotics.net>: > On Fri, 1 May 2009, Jason Shoemaker wrote: > >> My company is looking for ways to improve throughput for data transfers >> between individual servers. We’re exploring the creation of Etherchannels >> using multiple server NICs, but Etherchannel seems to have the limitation >> of >> not supporting per-packet load-balancing, therefore limiting traffic >> between >> two individual hosts to 1 Gig. > > Have you thought about Infiniband? Dual 10 gig cards cost about $50 and 24 > port switches about $1200 on ebay. Infiniband has just a fraction of the > latency of ethernet (even 10 get eth). You get the lowest latency if your > application supports Infiniband, but if not you can run IP over IB. > Infiniband is dying technology.. > >> <> > > Nathan Stratton CTO, BlinkMind, Inc. > nathan at robotics.net nathan at blinkmind.com > http://www.robotics.net http://www.blinkmind.com
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