Re: Anyone can share the Network card experience

2010-10-06 Thread Joel Jaeggli
On 10/5/10 10:01 AM, Deric Kwok wrote: > Hi > > Anyone can share the Network card experience > > ls onborad PCI Expresscard better or Plug in slot PCI Express card good? both are likely to be pci-e x1 interfaces if it's a single or dual port chipset. > How are their perf

Re: Anyone can share the Network card experience

2010-10-05 Thread Greg Whynott
Hi, most of our traffic is heading directly into memory, not hitting the local disks, on the HPC end of things. Our file servers are feeding the network with around 24 x 10Gibit (active/active clusters), and regularly run at over 80 percent on all ports during runs.. this is all HPC /

Re: Anyone can share the Network card experience

2010-10-05 Thread Chris Tracy
>> Anyone can share the Network card experience >> ls onborad PCI Expresscard better or Plug in slot PCI Express card good? >> How are their performance in Gig transfer rate? > IMHO, Nothing beats a good intel NIC. > I'm a big fan of the intel pro/1000GT. > In ter

Re: Anyone can share the Network card experience

2010-10-05 Thread Heath Jones
> For 10Gbit we use Intel cards for production service machines,  and > ConnextX/Intel in the HPC cluster. Greg - I've not been exposed to 10G on the server side.. Does the server handle the traffic load well (even with offloading) - that's a LOT of web requests / app queries per second! Or are

Re: Anyone can share the Network card experience

2010-10-05 Thread Greg Whynott
Hi > > Anyone can share the Network card experience > > ls onborad PCI Expresscard better or Plug in slot PCI Express card good? > > How are their performance in Gig transfer rate? > > Thank you so much >

Re: Anyone can share the Network card experience

2010-10-05 Thread Heath Jones
ort throughput up to 16 GB/s aggregate. The PCIe 2.0 standard uses a base clock speed of 5.0 GHz, while the first version operates at 2.5 GHz." I can't give you practical advice, but its a good place to start your reading... Cheers Heath On 5 October 2010 15:01, Deric Kwok wrote:

re: Anyone can share the Network card experience

2010-10-05 Thread Nick Olsen
day, October 05, 2010 10:01 AM To: "nanog list" Subject: Anyone can share the Network card experience Hi Anyone can share the Network card experience ls onborad PCI Expresscard better or Plug in slot PCI Express card good? How are their performance in Gig transfer rate? Thank you so much

Anyone can share the Network card experience

2010-10-05 Thread Deric Kwok
Hi Anyone can share the Network card experience ls onborad PCI Expresscard better or Plug in slot PCI Express card good? How are their performance in Gig transfer rate? Thank you so much