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Title: Optimizing 10-Gigabit Ethernet for Networks of Workstations, Clusters, and Grids: A Case Study

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  1. Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
  2. California Inst. of Technology (CalTech), Pasadena, CA (United States)
  3. SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States)
  4. European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva (Switzerland)
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Here, this paper presents a case study of the 10-Gigabit Ethernet (10GbE) adapter from Intel R . 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.

Research Organization:
SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Science (SC); National Science Foundation (NSF); US Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR)
Grant/Contract Number:
AC02-76SF00515; AC03-76SF00515; ANI-0230967; F49620-03-1- 0119; DAAD19-02-1-0283
OSTI ID:
1441653
Report Number(s):
SLAC-PUB-10198
Resource Relation:
Conference: SC Conference, Phoenix, AZ (United States), 15-21 Nov 2003
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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