Comments on: Panasas and Arista Partner on 10GbE Storage [CORRECTED] http://insidehpc.com/2009/12/08/panasas-and-arista-partner-on-10gbe-storage/ HPC News Without the Noise for Supercomputing Professionals | insideHPC Sun, 19 May 2013 10:46:54 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.1 By: John Leidel http://insidehpc.com/2009/12/08/panasas-and-arista-partner-on-10gbe-storage/#comment-198444 John Leidel Thu, 10 Dec 2009 03:00:48 +0000 http://insidehpc.com/?p=9162#comment-198444 Mark, apologies for the discrepancy. The post has been updated. Mark, apologies for the discrepancy. The post has been updated.

]]> By: Mark http://insidehpc.com/2009/12/08/panasas-and-arista-partner-on-10gbe-storage/#comment-198212 Mark Tue, 08 Dec 2009 22:47:14 +0000 http://insidehpc.com/?p=9162#comment-198212 This effort is very promising, and was inspired by LANL and Roadrunner, but Arista does NOT provide the 10G storage network at the lab and the release doesn't say it does. Currently Arista can't deliver the sheer scale that RR requires. The network is actually powered by over a dozen Force10 enterprise switches to get sufficient bandwidth and port counts. This effort is very promising, and was inspired by LANL and Roadrunner, but Arista does NOT provide the 10G storage network at the lab and the release doesn’t say it does. Currently Arista can’t deliver the sheer scale that RR requires.

The network is actually powered by over a dozen Force10 enterprise switches to get sufficient bandwidth and port counts.

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