[Beowulf]Infrastruture planning for small HPC 40/100 gigabyet eyhernet or Infiniband?

[Eugen Leitl]

On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 03:55:51PM -0700, Greg Lindahl wrote:

> Fiber is a commodity.  Perhaps you were looking for pricing close
> enough to twisted pair copper? In any case, it's not just the cost per
> length of cable, the endpoints for fiber are also more expensive.

Right now you need GBICs, a splicing cassette, and a splicer 
(a 10 k$ device). The future looks very bright for polymer fiber,
which can be processed with a simple sharp knife (100 MBit/s
Ethernet kits + converters are reasonably cheap, 1 GBit/s 
is being developed -- 10 GBit/s might be rather challenging,
unless there's photonic crystal technology).

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