Ethernet The Occasional Outsider 169
coondoggie writes to mention an article at NetworkWorld about the outsider status of Ethernet in some high-speed data centers. From the article: "The latency of store-and-forward Ethernet technology is imperceptible for most LAN users -- in the low 100-millisec range. But in data centers, where CPUs may be sharing data in memory across different connected machines, the smallest hiccups can fail a process or botch data results. 'When you get into application-layer clustering, milliseconds of latency can have an impact on performance,' Garrison says. This forced many data center network designers to look beyond Ethernet for connectivity options."
Re:Lesson: Use appropriate Tech. (Score:1, Insightful)
If you did truly intend to state that it's not high speed, you're mistaken. 10 gigabit Ethernet is common, and modern hardware latencies are not significant. The only way you're going to exceed that would be with WDM (that's cheating) or with an OC-768 (good luck finding one outside of a research lab).
Re:Slashdot summary wrong, actual article is bette (Score:2, Insightful)