Re: Gbit or Firewire 800

• Subject: Re: Gbit or Firewire 800
• From: Michael Caplinger <email@hidden>
• Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2004 11:10:38 -0400

If I could invest into a Workgroup Cluster from Apple, my first dilemma would be what interconnection to use. Should I connect all the nodes to a Gbit Ethernet switch using the 2 built in Gbit interface or use the the two 800 Mbit/s Firewire connection to daisy chain them or to connect them to a Firewire Hub ? The cluster would have minimum 12 nodes and do mostly bio-informatics related number crunching and statistical computation.

Mike Caplinger
System Administrator
Dept of Physics and Astronomy
University of Georgia
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