[openib-general] IB: I don't like what I'm seeing.

Wed Mar 31 18:02:18 PST 2004

    ron> So, we are on our 5th (6th?) network which guarantees
    ron> end-to-end reliability, even though it is really
    ron> card-to-card. I no longer buy the arguments -- we have to
    ron> measure them. The BER sounds too high for us to assume
    ron> end-to-end will work.

Fair enough -- you obviously have much more experience with giant
installations than I do.  Were you ever able to track down where these
previous networks fell down?  Was it HCA chip bugs, random glitches
(cosmic rays :) inside the chips, data getting corrupted going across
PCI or something else?

 - Roland

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