Initial end-to-end performance evaluation of 10-Gigabit Ethernet

Author

Hurwitz, Justin ; Feng, Wu-chun

Author_Institution

Res. & Dev. in Adv. Network Technol. (RADIANT), Los Alamos Nat. Lab., NM, USA

fYear

2003

fDate

20-22 Aug. 2003

Firstpage

116

Lastpage

121

Abstract

We present an initial end-to-end performance evaluation of Intel´s® 10 Gigabit Ethernet (10 GbE) network interface card (or adapter). With appropriate optimizations to the configurations of Linux, TCP, and the 10 GbE adapter, we achieve over 4 Gb/s throughput and 21 μs end-to-end latency between applications in a local-area network despite using less capable, lower-end PCs. These results indicate that 10 GbE may also be a cost-effective solution for system-area networks in commodity clusters, data centers, and web-server farms as well as wide-area networks in support of computational and data grids.

Keywords

local area networks; network interfaces; performance evaluation; 10 Gbit/s; 21 mus; 4 Gbit/s; Ethernet end-to-end performance evaluation; Ethernet network interface card; LAN throughput; Linux; TCP; commodity clusters; data centers; end-to-end latency; local-area network; network adapter; system-area networks; web-server farms; wide-area networks; Computer interfaces; Computer networks; Ethernet networks; Laboratories; Linux; Local area networks; Maintenance; Network interfaces; Optical interconnections; Personal communication networks;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

High Performance Interconnects, 2003. Proceedings. 11th Symposium on

Print_ISBN

0-7695-2012-X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CONECT.2003.1231487

Filename

1231487