perfSONAR User Q&A and Other Discussion

[Kathy Benninger <>]

Garhan,

Thanks for the feedback!  I haven't heard much about the Solarflare cards. 
I also saw a recent price comparison that listed the Solarflare card as less 
expensive than the Myricom and Intel X520 cards so I thought it worth 
investigating.

Kathy

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Kathy Benninger
Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center


On 9/19/14, 4:04 PM, Garhan Attebury wrote:
> We have upwards of 56 of the single port version of that card in production 
> at HCC right now (SFN5152F). One of our perfsonar instances 
> (hcc-ps02.unl.edu) uses one of these cards just to tie it in with perfsonar.
>
> Cost seems to be amongst the lowest, and their linux utilities (for RHEL at 
> least) have been just fine for updating the firmwares and toggling PXE on 
> (off by default).
>
> Zero complaints and zero problems so far, other than they ship with full 
> height brackets by default and I just got done having to swap to the included 
> half-height as we added them to 48x Dell R720xd servers … my fingers did 
> survive though :)
>
>
> Garhan Attebury
> Holland Computing Center
> University of Nebraska-Lincoln
> 402-472-7761
>
>
> On Sep 19, 2014, at 2:54 PM, Kathy Benninger 
> <>
>  wrote:
>
> > Does anyone have experience with Solarflare 10GbE adapters?
> >
> > The model I'm considering is SFN5162F.
> >
> > Thanks!
> > Kathy