Optimizing 10-Gigabit Ethernet for Networks of Workstations, Clusters, and Grids: A Case Study
Abstract
This paper presents a case study of the 10-Gigabit Ethernet (10GbE) adapter from Intel ®. Specifically, with appropriate optimizations to the configurations of the 10GbE adapter and TCP, we demonstrate that the 10GbE adapter can perform well in local-area, storage-area, system-area, and wide-area networks. For local-area, storage-area, and system-area networks in support of networks of workstations, network-attached storage, and clusters, respectively, we can achieve over 7-Gb/s end-to-end throughput and 12-µs end-to-end latency between applications running on Linux-based PCs. For the wide-area network in support of grids, we broke the recently-set Internet2 Land Speed Record by 2.5 times by sustaining an end-to-end TCP/IP throughput of 2.38 Gb/s between Sunnyvale, California and Geneva, Switzerland (i.e., 10,037 kilometers) to move over a terabyte of data in less than an hour. Thus, the above results indicate that 10GbE may be a cost-effective solution across a multitude of computing environments.
Additional Information
© 2003 ACM. This work was supported by the US DOE Office of Science through LANL contract W-7405-ENG-36 Caltech contract DE-FG03-92-ER40701, and SLAC contract DE-AC03-76SF00515. Additional support was provided by NSF through grant ANI-0230967, AFOSR through grant F49620-03-1-0119, and ARO through grant DAAD19-02-1-0283. This paper is also available as the following LANL technical report: LA-UR 03-5728, July 2003.Additional details
- Eprint ID
- 71291
- DOI
- 10.1145/1048935.1050200
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- CaltechAUTHORS:20161019-142754228
- Department of Energy (DOE)
- W-7405-ENG-36
- Department of Energy (DOE)
- DE-FG03-92-ER40701
- Department of Energy (DOE)
- DE-AC03-76SF00515
- NSF
- ANI-0230967
- Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR)
- F49620-03-1-0119
- Army Research Office (ARO)
- DAAD19-02-1-0283
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