Can Anyone Suggest a Good Switch?

Posted by Cliff on Monday September 20, 2004 @08:25AM from the you-can-never-have-too-many-ports dept.

wgadmin asks: "I am a sysadmin for a 500-node Linux cluster. We are doubling the size of our compute nodes, so, as a consequence, we need a new switch. We currently have a Foundry FastIron 1500 -- however, a) it doesn't have enough ports (only 208) and b) it is extremely unreliable. We want something that's solid as a rock. We process mostly serial jobs. And we will probably require ~320 ports. What's everyone using for their HPC clusters? There's so many high performance switches on the market, we hardly know where to start."

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Re:Stackable 48 Ports by thegrassyknowl · 2004-09-20 15:57 · Score: 0, Troll

What's with all this switch business? I can sell you a few rolls of RG58 and a stack of BNC end and T-pieces.

The configuration is a breeze - you jsut plug it in and it works. Truly plug and play, as opposed to these expensive "switches" that need hours of configuration ;)

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