Well,
It depends on the cluster, is it a high performance cluster or a 
beowulf? or a database cluster? if its running a unix flavor and a 
database or something scientific then 100mb is fine, if its running 
winblows i wouldnt even bother, but its said that windows uses 
fibre "cause it needs to" it all depends ;) 

Quoting Joel Dudley <joel@silverw.com>:

Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2000 13:01:50 -0700
Subject: clustering

I am thinking about a clustering solution here at work and I have 
somequestions about hardware.  Is 100Mbit Cat5 sufficient for cluster 
communication or do I need to go to fibre channel to really see some 
benefits.  Anyone have experience with this?  I am ignorant on the 
matter.  Thanks.

- joel

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