PreviousTuesday 23 August 2005, 4:35 AM
Great server
Using Sun Fire V20z servers based on the AMD Opteron processor running the Solaris 10 Operating System and Linux, SLAC was able to demonstrate completely filling a 10 Gbyte/sec transcontinental network path for a sustained time with standard 1500-byte packets, and the team achieved more than 15 Gbyte/sec (9.43 Gbyte/sec in one direction and 5.65 Gbyte/sec in the reverse direction simultaneously) on a single 10 Gbyte/sec wavelength path. In addition, the team successfully showed smooth communications at multiple Gbyte/sec rates between multiple operating systems and different vendor network interface cards. The Bandwidth Challenge results prove the efficiency and robustness that an operating system can deliver, as well as the power and flexibility of two- and four-way servers from Sun built with the AMD Opteron processor and 10 Gigabit Ethernet cards from Neterion (formerly S2io) and Chelsio.
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