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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: opinions on routers/switches for parallel clusters
Having dealt with Lucent I can warn you away from them (as if I need to nowadays). Having dealt with Cabletron I can warn you away from Riverstone. The only company you mention which has consistently provided excellent products and support (and never screwed me around or lied to me) is Cisco. Their stuff is a bit overpriced, but <cliche> you get what you pay for. </cliche> At 11:15 AM 6/18/01 -0500, [email protected] wrote: Hi Everyone, We are an educational institution looking into building a scientific computing cluster that has 128-256 nodes interconnected by gigE. The outward connection would be the site FDDI ring. The problem is that we want to experiment with the topology as well as the computing part. :) And I am at a loss as to what gigE switch and router we should use. The requirements are: 1. ability to morph the topology at will 2. fast (doh!) 3. Layer 1-4 is required (up to layer 7 would be nice) 4. load balancing Which companies' products do you like? (*Barring* Cisco) [If you cannot state your opinion publicly, please send me a private reply. I appreciate it and will keep it confidential.) I am looking at these companies: Lucent Foundey Networks River Stone Alteon Extreme Networks Ericcson Would the people who have had experience with these products tell me what they feel? Thank you very much. Michael -- +-----------------------------------------------------------+ | [email protected] | [email protected] | | http://iteration.net/~keichii | Yes, BSD is a conspiracy. | +-----------------------------------------------------------+
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