Durga, currently, the average life expectancy of a cluster is 3 years. si if you have to architect a cluster out of off the shelf components, I would recommend you take the "best" components available today or to be released in a very near future. so many things can happen in 10 years, so I can only suggest you do not lock in yourself with a given vendor.
"best" should be understood as "best match with your needs and your budget". as a general though, market is both rational and irrational, so the best engineered technology might not always prevail. and I do not know the magic recipe to guarantee success. Cheers, Gilles On Monday, March 21, 2016, dpchoudh . <dpcho...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello all > > I don't mean this to be a political conversation, but more of a research > type. > > From what I have been observing, some of the interconnects that had very > good technological features as well as popularity in the past have > basically gone down the history book and some others, with comparable > feature set, have gained (although I won't put any names here, neither of > these are commodity gigabit Ethernet). > > Any comments on what drives these factors? Put another way, if I am to > architect a system consisting of commodity nodes today, how can I > reasonably be sure that the interconnect will be a good choice, in all > sense of the word 'good', say, 10 years down the road? > > Thanks > Durga > > We learn from history that we never learn from history. >
