[geeks] Intel's new bechmark idea

[Michael Thompson]

>From: Kris Kirby <kris at catonic.net>
>
>On Tue, 5 Mar 2002, Joshua D Boyd wrote:
>> The only way I could possibly think of IDE as good would be to use a stack
>> of cheap machines to hold stripped and mirror IDE drives, and be connected
>> to the main workstation by myrinet or some other very fast networking.  But
>> then, is it really still cheaper than SCSI or FC-AL?  I think not.
>
>How fast is myrinet?

It can have a sustained one-way data rate of 240MBytes/sec. It will run
TCP/IP over 1.5Gb/sec.
Take a look at http://www.myricom.com.


Michael Thompson
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