Re: Replication on the backend

On Wed, 2005-12-07 at 01:04 -0800, J. Andrew Rogers wrote:
> Opteron boards get pretty damn close to Big Iron SMP fabric  
> performance in a cheap package.  Given how many companies have  
> announced plans to produce Opteron server boards with Infiniband  
> fabrics directly integrated into HyperTransport, I would say that  
> this is the future of server boards.

InfiniBand on-board? Wow, seems very interesting. Thank you for your
hints and numbers, very helpfull!

> And if postgres could actually use an infiniband fabric for  
> clustering a single database instance across Opteron servers, that  
> would be very impressive...

full ACK

Regards
Markus