From: "Wesley T. Perkins" <wesley@infeasible.com>
Newsgroups: comp.parallel.pvm,comp.parallel.mpi
Subject: Re: Switching HUB for beowulf cluster?
Date: Thu, 4 Feb 1999 13:55:11 -0600
Organization: Infeasible Solutions
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Hello,

I would very appreciative if someone could provide a rough estimate of the
costs of interconnecting say 12 PCs using each of these technologies.

For example, what is the cost of a 3Com SuperStack II Switch 3000 10/100,
which I believe someone recommended on this thread?

Wesley T Perkins
wesley@starbath.com


>The current cost-effective solution is a 100baseT switching hub.
>For better bandwidth (but not latency) at a higher cost, Myrinet,
>HiPPI, Giganet etc. are useful.  For peak bandwidth, GSN (aka
>HiPPI 6400) is the only game in town.
>
>
>Regards,
>Nick Maclaren,