Cool! I look forward to hearing peoples' experiences with these. I'm in Canada so mine will take a while.
The NICs can be a bit tricky to buy cheaply. Your most likely good deal is going to be the Mellanox Connectx-4; Single port: MCX455 or Dual port: MCX456. The lowest price I've got is around $100 USD but patience is needed to get that price.
The first 100G cards I bought were HP-branded QLogic Fastlinq 45000 and I got super lucky with the pricing.
With the CX4s, a lot of them are from HPC clusters and ship running in InfiniBand mode. There is a fairly easy command-line procedure to switch them to Ethernet.
Here is a large lot being sold-off at $120: Mellanox ConnectX-4 VPI EDR IB 100GbE adapter card CX455A Both Brackets NEW 772286740245 | eBay - If you buy a few of them and offer $100 it has a good chance of success.
Good Luck!
The NICs can be a bit tricky to buy cheaply. Your most likely good deal is going to be the Mellanox Connectx-4; Single port: MCX455 or Dual port: MCX456. The lowest price I've got is around $100 USD but patience is needed to get that price.
The first 100G cards I bought were HP-branded QLogic Fastlinq 45000 and I got super lucky with the pricing.
With the CX4s, a lot of them are from HPC clusters and ship running in InfiniBand mode. There is a fairly easy command-line procedure to switch them to Ethernet.
Here is a large lot being sold-off at $120: Mellanox ConnectX-4 VPI EDR IB 100GbE adapter card CX455A Both Brackets NEW 772286740245 | eBay - If you buy a few of them and offer $100 it has a good chance of success.
Good Luck!