Newsgroups: comp.parallel.pvm
From: lindahl@cs.virginia.edu (Greg Lindahl)
Subject: Re: fddi vs fast ethernet
Organization: a guest of Shadow Island Games
Date: 5 Sep 1997 15:44:52 GMT
Message-ID: <5up9dk$m1d@news2.zippo.com>

"Jude X. Jin" <xj7@columbia.edu> writes:

> Presumably, we need to connect them with faster physical links.
> We have two choices:
> Fast Ethernet: Cheap,    100MB/s
> Fddi         : Expensive  GB/s

Myrinet is a gigabyte networking technology which is about the
same price as Fddi, but with switches everywhere. You could get
Myrinet for 3 machines for about $6,000.

However, Fast Ethernet is so cheap that you might as well try
it and see how well it works before deciding to spend big $ on
another technolgy.

-- g
University of Virginia / Legion