[nycbug-talk] soekris style boxes for memcached ?

[alex at pilosoft.com]

On Fri, 18 May 2007, Brian A. Seklecki wrote:

> On Fri, 18 May 2007, Bob Ippolito wrote:
> 
> > On 5/18/07, Peter Wright <pete at nomadlogic.org> wrote: memcached is
> > basically just a big hash table that people use for caching data (it's
> > not redundant or anything, but you can code that at the application
> > level). The bottleneck is usually the network and the
> 
> Right.  At some point you'll need SGI's NUMALink (3.2gbps synchronous?).  
> But maybe 802.3ad bonding/trunking of 1gbps or 10gbps and an open
> architecture can get you comparabile results without 3-phase power >:}
yes, 4*GE is dirt cheap (~300$ for quad-e1000 card)

10*GE is slightly more but by no means big balling anymore (~1000$ per 
card, and ~200$ per switchport). 

-alex