High speed networks connecting clusters
Network switches seem to bottleneck a lot of builds and capable hardware is prohibitively expensive.
Is it possible to make more affordable network switches in the 10 Gb range? Is this a copper interface or optical?
A network switch with 48 ports that can handle high speed ethernet. This might start at 1 GHz and we'll see what it takes for 10 GHz.
A starting design might be an 8 port 1 GHz switch and see what it takes to expand ports and speed.