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you can also pipe 10gige over inifniband, which is pretty cheap.

Has that advantage of having quicker rdma than 10gig ethernet. so while the switching may be slower, the processing is faster because data is piped directly into memory.

http://www.mellanox.com/page/performance_infiniband



Ethernet now also supports RDMA via the RoCE standard. No idea how it compares to Inifiband RDMA, but it has been heavily exploited in this project from Microsoft Research: https://www.usenix.org/system/files/conference/nsdi14/nsdi14...


Plus they mention it in their opencompute nodes so it must be shipping https://gigaom.com/2014/10/30/microsoft-tweaks-its-server-sp...




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