I am doing research for a small cluster to be built for use at UCR's bioinformatics department. Since this cluster will mainly be used in blast or similar applications that mainly involve a few transfers of large chunks of data, I am of the opinion that Myrinet cards would be a massive waste of money. Instead, we plan on using dual bonded gigabit channels. Is anyone aware of the CPU overhead incurred by bonded gigabit devices? After skimming through the bonding documents with the kernel, it appears that boding is possible over any switches, however it seems to be implying that this is for high availability boding, rather than high performance bonding. From previous posts to this list, I seem to recall that its possible to have eth0 and eth1 connected through different switches on different subnets and relying one the kernel bonding to handle the rest, is this accurate? Thanks in advance, -- ---------------------------- | Josh Lauricha | | laurichj@bioinfo.ucr.edu | | Bioinformatics, UCR | |--------------------------|
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