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Re: NPE-G2 vs. Sup720-3BXL


From: Azher Mughal <azher () hep caltech edu>
Date: Fri, 15 May 2009 19:51:09 -0700

New architectures might be helpful to achieve such throughput e.g.
Myricom pci-e Gen2 10GE cards on new Intel Nehalem based servers.

-Azher

Leo Bicknell wrote:
In a message written on Fri, May 15, 2009 at 10:25:12PM -0400, Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu wrote:
Did you check PCI bus bandwidth?  That's probably going to be the biggest
constraint on "a few 10GBE interfaces" if they all get going full blast.
Remember that each packet is going to burn bandwidth twice - once in and
once out...

PCIe, x8 or x16, which is serial point to point.

http://www.csc.kth.se/~olofh/10G_OSR/10Gbps.pdf 

25 Gb/sec across 4x10G ports on higher end but far from topped out
hardware.



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