Good 100 Mbps switches

[Thomas R Boehme]

Just get a second switch instead of 5 modules. It's cheaper and has the
added benefit that you can put both power supplies (and of course the
modules) into one case to have redundant power. This gives you an 80-port
switch for ~3000$. 

We also have two Procurve 4000M and had pretty good results as well.

Bye, Thommy

-----Original Message-----
From: Eric Kuhnke [mailto:eric at fnordsystems.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, September 12, 2001 1:25 PM
To: beowulf at beowulf.org
Subject: RE: Good 100 Mbps switches

I've had very good results with the HP Procurve 4000M series...

http://www.hp.com/rnd/products/switches/switch4000/overview.htm
http://www.hp.com/rnd/products/switches/switch4000/large.htm

It comes with 40 10/100Base-T ports for $1499 from many online stores, and
is expandable to 80 ports total.  The only downside is the 8-port modules
are rather expensive ($350 each) if you need to expand beyond 40 ports.

Eric Kuhnke
Lead Engineer / Operations Manager
Fnord Datacenter Systems Inc.
eric at fnordsystems.com
www.fnordsystems.com
voice: +1-360-527-3301 fax: +1-360-647-0752

-----Original Message-----
From: beowulf-admin at beowulf.org [mailto:beowulf-admin at beowulf.org]On
Behalf Of Anuradha Ratnaweera
Sent: Wednesday, September 12, 2001 12:15 AM
To: beowulf at beowulf.org
Subject: Good 100 Mbps switches



We are going to setup a beowulf cluster with 32 nodes using 100 Mbps
ethernet.

Please recommand good (and of course cheap) switches that can be used for
this
purpose (we need more than 32 ports).

Regards,

Anuradha

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