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Myricom Myrinet Products

	Myrinet-2000	Myri-10G
Full-duplex data rate for the links, NIC ports, and switch ports	2+2 Gigabits/s	10+10 Gigabits/s
Link Cables	LC-connector duplex multimode fiber to 200m	Selected 10-Gigabit Ethernet cables, copper and fiber
NICs	Single-port and dual-port PCI-X	Single-port PCI-Express, dual-protocol 10G Myrinet or 10G Ethernet
Switches	Based on 16-port and 32-port crossbar switches	Based on 16-port crossbar switches
Switch Networks	Up to 256 host ports with a single "Network in a Box" component, and up to tens of thousands of hosts by combining these components	Up to 128 host ports with a single "Network in a Box" component, and up to tens of thousands of hosts by combining these components
Interoperability	Gigabit Ethernet	10-Gigabit Ethernet
Myrinet Software Support	Myrinet Express (MX-2G) or GM-2	Myrinet Express (MX-10G)
MX or MPI Latency	3.2 µs (D-card NICs) 2.6 µs (E- or F-card NICs)	2 µs (PCI-Express NICs)
MX Unidirectional Data Rate	247 MBytes/s (one-port NICs) 495 MBytes/s (two-port NICs)	1.2 GBytes/s
TCP/IP (MX ethernet emulation) Data Rate	1.98 Gbits/s (one-port NICs) 3.95 Gbits/s (two-port NICs)	9.6 Gbits/s

Further Information

Read more about Myricom's Myrinet networking on our Myrinet Networking page. Request a price quote for Myrinet components using our Myrinet Component Quote Request form.

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