By Paul Simpson -
hi all,
we're looking at speeding up our internal network / flames & storage - mainly for the new(ish) 2d department. ?
we're investigating re-purposing / hacking some some old IB gear from a retired 3 machine isilon cluster. ?
here's a few (odd) questions:?
1/ does anyone know if flame/flare will work with the isilon IB cards/switch?
2/ from what i understand, autodesk IB uses TCPoverIB. ?can a IB card run in both modes simultaneously? ?ie, TCPoverIB and also RDMA? ?ie, can the flames chat with each other AND also communicate with GPFS via one IB interface?
3/ are we mad? (yes, i know we should pay some ???'s and just get on 10Ge)
i know this is somewhat hacky / convoluted. ?so, even gut feelings or warnings would be welcome. ?we'll be starting this next week - so will let you know how this goes.
cheers,
paul