AoE is fantastic and should scale right past the bus speed of your head system - depending on how many interface (PCI-X, etc.) slots it has capable of full-gigabit speed, your biggest limitation will be the backplane speed of your motherboard or switch.
Of course, latency is still probably going to be an issue running on 'commodity' hardware - remember that, even though LAN connectivity works well for many things, it's designed for the general case and doesn't work perfectly for everything. That's where InfiniBand, FiberChannel, and such come in - more specialized technologies that try to address more specific cases (like SAN) while providing as many of the goodies that the more generalized (100-base-T, etc.) offer.
Glad to see you didn't install ASpell, we might have a fully literate artificial sentience on our hands; at least we can still confuse it with a simple phonetic soundex.
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AoE is fantastic and should scale right past the bus speed of your head system - depending on how many interface (PCI-X, etc.) slots it has capable of full-gigabit speed, your biggest limitation will be the backplane speed of your motherboard or switch.
Of course, latency is still probably going to be an issue running on 'commodity' hardware - remember that, even though LAN connectivity works well for many things, it's designed for the general case and doesn't work perfectly for everything. That's where InfiniBand, FiberChannel, and such come in - more specialized technologies that try to address more specific cases (like SAN) while providing as many of the goodies that the more generalized (100-base-T, etc.) offer.
Glad to see you didn't install ASpell, we might have a fully literate artificial sentience on our hands; at least we can still confuse it with a simple phonetic soundex.
Ix-nay on the ower-pay!