[Beowulf] Infiniband Support ?

[Gilad Shainer]

The sustem you suggested is GigE connected - same can be don't with the servers.... 

There is more cost effective 20G InfinBand solutions as well. So can chose among veraity of solutions.

Amjad, you can conect me directly, I may have some spare gear. 

Gilad.

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From: Beowulf [mailto:beowulf-bounces at beowulf.org] On Behalf Of Christopher Samuel
Sent: Monday, May 26, 2014 4:26 PM
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Subject: Re: [Beowulf] Infiniband Support ?

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On 26/05/14 22:41, John Hearns wrote:

> Looking on colfax direct, there is an 18 port QDR Mellanox switch at 
> $3350 there is a single port QDR card for $522
> 3 metre cables for $48
> 
> Total of $12470

Or you could pay around $8,000 and get one of Doug's Limulus clusters in a PC case, ready built, with an HPL of 444GF and Haswell CPUs.

http://basement-supercomputing.com/index.php/products/hikashop-menu-for-products-listing/product/2-limulus-hpc-200-personal-cluster-workstation

That's ~3 times faster than my previous gigs first supercomputer, a Compaq AlphaServer SC40 that was #150 on the Top500 in June 2001. :-)

cheers,
Chris
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