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QDR infiniband at home was such a great hack, and I was doing the same thing with my small network a little while ago. As long as you run connections point-to-
by pclmulqdq 3y ago
QDR infiniband at home was such a great hack, and I was doing the same thing with my small network a little while ago. As long as you run connections point-to-point (with no switch) and keep the computers near each other (in twinax range), it's incredibly cheap and blazing fast.
- jpgvm 3y agoYeah I ran it for years with no issues. I modified a Mellanox switch to use quieter fans and eventually switched to fibre SFPs so I could make longer cable runs (also twinax is bulky/heavy). Was absolutely epic to use my ZFS NAS at essentially native speeds from my desktop and media PC. I was using the IB SRP target to export ZVOLs so with fast all-flash storage you really couldn't tell it wasn't running on a (giant) local SSD.