See:
http://www.dbd.com/~whitis/hardware/quartet.html
These things are devilishly expensive, like $800ea, which is going to make
them real real expensive on a large number of machines. We have only used
them in bsd or linux based routers rather than in our beowulf's.
joelja
>
> E.g. www.znyx.com.
>
> They even have boards with an i960 that makes the board looks like one fault
> tolerant 400 Mbps link. I saw them at last CeBIT. I don't know whether they
> support Linux.
>
> If they weren't that expensive (2000 USD?), it would be great for making
> hypercube Beowulf machines (each node a 600 MHx AXP and 4 Znyx boards)...
>
> It's not that difficult to make one PCI board with 4 Ethernet ports. All you
> need is a PCI bridge (DEC 21152?) and 4 PCI Ethernet chips (DEC 21143).
>
> Greetings,
>
> Geert
>
> --
> Geert Uytterhoeven Geert.Uytterhoeven@cs.kuleuven.ac.be
> Wavelets, Linux/{m68k~Amiga,PPC~CHRP} http://www.cs.kuleuven.ac.be/~geert/
> Department of Computer Science -- Katholieke Universiteit Leuven -- Belgium
>
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