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High Speed Networking	by amish	2004-02-05 08:47:39
I am thinking of puttering around with some high speed networking options for a small cluster that I administer. Ones I am familiar with are Myrinet, Gigabit Ethernet and Fast Ethernet. I am wondering what sort of time/learning curve/cash investment would be involved in any of these you happen to be familiar with. Linux support (especially with RH9) is a major issue for me, though I think most if not all of these protocols were set up in a *nix environment originally so I am not thinking it is a big deal. Is the OS interface going to be the same or are we talking total reeducation here? I am not super familiar with the state of the art, so if I am stupid and out of date with the protocols I am familiar with I ache to be brought up to date. :) I have a budget, so cost isn't a super huge issue if its not insane (ie factor of 2 over boring ethernet vs factors of 100x 1000x etc heh).
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Straight ethernet...	by mcnutcase	2004-02-05 08:55:44
Gigabit ethernet works over copper now.	by Arcanum	2004-02-05 09:30:21
Cat 5e is perfectly acceptable for gigabit copper. (n/t)	by idtent	2004-02-05 10:36:13
Cat5 works, too.	by Irrelevant	2004-02-05 11:33:31
Thats nice, one less thing to worry about (n/t)	by amish	2004-02-05 12:10:24
Well, Cat5 is supposed to work.	by LurkerMo	2004-02-05 12:48:46
Go gigabit ethernet.	by LurkerMo	2004-02-05 09:13:39
Yeah, Gigabit Ethernet is what I am leaning toward	by amish	2004-02-05 09:36:27
GigE is quite popular	by myke	2004-02-05 09:44:49

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