Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2002 17:29:45 -0500 (CDT) From: "Brandon D. Valentine" <bandix@geekpunk.net> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> Cc: Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu>, <hackers@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: gigabit NIC of choice? Message-ID: <20020910172228.C4642-100000@taran.dhcp.mc.vanderbilt.edu> In-Reply-To: <3D7E6E75.DC0E67B7@mindspring.com>
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On Tue, 10 Sep 2002, Terry Lambert wrote: > Andrew Gallatin wrote: > > > > I think our products are the only game in town. > > > > http://www.myri.com/myrinet/product_list.html > > http://www.myri.com/myrinet/performance/index.html > > I'm a bit confused about these cards. Terry, put down the pipe and visit the URLs. ;-) They're not Ethernet at all. They're Myrinet. They're 2 GB/s full duplex. Saying that they are 4GB/s would be misleading, but they are most definitely capable of 2GB/s+2GB/s if your bus can pump that much data. Myrinet is currently only useful in specialized applications because it can't be bridged onto a standard Ethernet network without running it through a computer (AFAIK). There are rumors afloat of Gigabit Ethernet linecards for Myrinet switch hardware on the horizon though. The technology is great and the folks at myri.com are some of the most competent and helpful support staff I've ever had the pleasure of dealing with. Oh yeah, and it's f'ing fast. Brandon D. Valentine -- http://www.geekpunk.net bandix@geekpunk.net ++[>++++++<-]>[<++++++>-]<.>++++[>+++++<-]>[<+++++>-]<+.+++++++..++ +.>>+++++[<++++++>-]<++.<<+++++++++++++++.>.+++.------.--------.>+. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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