Internet?
Err great and all that but with the monopoly on international bandwidth how are they going to share all that data...?
With Cisco Systems launching its first server/system product today, the other server makers of the world were looking around to see what kind of news they could scrape up. Over at Sun Microsystems, the news today is that the South African Department of Science and Technology has funded a hybrid Sparc-Xeon supercomputing cluster …
I wonder why, "Sun is also building a visualization system for the supercomputing center and linking it all up with InfiniBand switches from Voltaire"
SUN has a set of InfiniBand Switches....
http://www.sun.com/products/networking/infiniband.jsp
Ranging from 0-288 nodes...
http://www.sun.com/products/networking/datacenter/ds3x24/
to 13,824 nodes...
http://www.sun.com/products/networking/datacenter/ds3456/
Is there a sweet-spot somewhere in the mid-range of nodes on the South African super computer to make the SUN InfiniBand Switches cost-effective?