Choosing Interconnects for Grid Databases?

Posted by Cliff on Wednesday October 12, 2005 @04:20AM from the neurons-of-the-distributed-mind dept.

cybrthng asks: "With all of the choices from Gig-E, 10 Gig-E, SCI/Infiniband and other connections for grid database applications, which one is actually worth the money and which ones are overkill or under performing? In a Real Application Cluster (RAC), latency can be an issue with cached memory and latches going over the interconnect. I don't want to recommend an architecture that doesn't achieve desired results, but on the flipside, I don't necessarily want overkill. Sun had recommended SCI, Oracle has said Gig-E and other vendors have said 10 Gig-E. Seems sales commissions drive many of what people recommend, so I'm interested in any real world experience you may have. Obviously, Gig-E is more affordable from a hardware perspective but does this come at a cost of application availability and performance to the end users? What has been your success or failures of grid interconnects?"

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Re:If you have the money..... by hey! · 2005-10-12 04:58 · Score: 1, Offtopic

Oh, what the hell. 90% of the responses will be people who have no fricken' idea about what he's talking about, 9.9% will have some idea but no actual experience.

So, being an optimist, I choose to see the glass as 0.1% full. This means if we get a thousand responses,it's worth a shot.

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Re:If you have the money..... by Godeke · 2005-10-12 05:15 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Well, when I read this article there were two people with experience (one with a fair commentary even), you, and four other comments. I guess he beat the odds.

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