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Posted to common-user@hadoop.apache.org by Geoff Howard <ge...@gmail.com> on 2011/07/01 13:13:40 UTC

Re: Sanity check re: value of 10GbE NICs for Hadoop?

On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 12:27 AM, Matt Davies <ma...@mattdavies.net> wrote:

> ... I've seen that our cluster
> could use more bandwidth, but it wasn't to the nodes that made the big
> difference, it was getting better switches that had better backplanes - the
> fabric made the difference.
>

Any recommendations on specific 1Gb switches for top of rack that have
better backplanes?

Geoff