Anyone have experience with PVC piping?

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KLAT2 at U Kentucky has an interesting Cluster made with AMD processors

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> On Friday 10 January 2003 08:04 pm, Bill Horne wrote:
> > > times). I think I'll build the 100Mb network (stage one) now while
> > > acccumulating the 64 nodes (stage two) then focus on moving to Gigabit
> > > (in stage three). I hope this makes sense as I'm still kinda new to this!
> > > Any thoughts on who I might tap for gigabit donorships/sponsors?
> >
> > I read an article about someone that did a cluster using multiple 10/100
> > cards per machine, to save on the costs. Try a Google search.
> 
> I once read an article on this, but I'll never find it.  I think it was in 
> Linux Magazine.
> 
> They put three network cards in each of around 80 machines, and the machines 
> were wired up to three different switches, and somehow the switches were also 
> connected together, and it meant that most machines could talk to each other 
> in one hop, and the rest could do it in two hops.  If you lay it out so that 
> the SAN/NFS/cluster controller are accessible to all machines in one hop, 
> though, for most applications it should cover almost all your net traffic 
> needs.
> 
> I could be misremembering, but I think they had the SAN on one switch and the 
> cluster controller on another switch (OpenPBS?) so that traffic was 
> independent, and the third switch was to the intranet outside the cluster for 
> issuing commands, etc.
> 
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