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Fiber is attractive. As someone who wants to upgrade to fiber, the main barrier to entry is the cost of switches and a router. Granted I'm also trying to find
by tonetegeatinst 2y ago
Fiber is attractive. As someone who wants to upgrade to fiber, the main barrier to entry is the cost of switches and a router.
Granted I'm also trying to find a switch that supports ROCm and rdma. Not easy to find a high bandwidth switch that supports this stuff without breaking the bank.
- jabl 2y agoFiber, as in Fibre Channel (FC, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fibre_Channel https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fibre_Channel ), not fiber as in "optical fiber" instead of copper cabling.
- _zoltan_ 2y agoSN2100/2700 from eBay?
- UltraSane 2y agoFibre Channel is a routed protocol invented specifically to connect block storage arrays to remote servers while making the block storage look locally attached to the OS. And it works REALLY REALLY well.