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I don't mean to be cynical, but other than for niche clusters in the home, wouldn't such technology be hobbled instantly by incoming bandwidth? Even in Germany
by varelse 12y ago
I don't mean to be cynical, but other than for niche clusters in the home, wouldn't such technology be hobbled instantly by incoming bandwidth?
Even in Germany, where the author lives, the top bandwidth appears to be about 50 Mb/s:
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2457284,00.asp http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2457284,00.asp
Which although it is still much better than the states:
http://ispspeedindex.netflix.com/results/usa/graph http://ispspeedindex.netflix.com/results/usa/graph
They're both well below 1 Gb/s, no?
- zymhan 12y agoI don't think the use case envisioned here is for home computers with InfiniBand, it's for work stations in corporate environments. Transferring large data sets to local servers is quite common, and can take a (relatively) long time even over Gigabit Ethernet.
- varelse 12y agoCorporations can afford to buy pricy network hardware for the people who need it (or they can skimp on engineering resources and congratulate themselves over and over again over how thrifty they're being). I read desktop to mostly mean consumer, perhaps erroneously?
- jedberg 12y agoIt's mostly for moving things around your internal network. I would love to have 10Gb to my NAS, because then my backups would take seconds instead of minutes. (First world problems, I know).
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