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

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 endto-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 comput...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2003
• Where: SC
• Authors: Wu-chun Feng, Justin Gus Hurwitz, Harvey B. Newman, Sylvain Ravot, Roger Les Cottrell, Olivier Martin, Fabrizio Coccetti, Cheng Jin, David X. Wei, Steven H. Low
• Keywords: 12-µs End-to-end Latency, Adapter, Applied Computing, SC 2003, Wide-area Network