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Performance Evaluation Of Copper-Based Gigabit Ethernet Interfaces

Document Type

Conference

Keywords

Availability, Bandwidth, Costs, Delay, Ethernet networks, Hardware, High performance computing, Linux, Stability, Throughput

Journal/Book/Conference Title

Proceedings - Conference on Local Computer Networks, LCN

Volume

2002-January

First Page

679

Last Page

690

Abstract

In today's high-performance computational environments communication substrates often stand out as the major limiting factor to performance, accessibility, and stability. Such platforms are naturally well-suited for high-performance network foundation built upon Gigabit Ethernet, or "GigE" technologies. Gigabit Ethernet hardware continues to become more attractive in price and availability, making it a viable choice for situations where large bandwidth is demanded. And copper-based Gigabit Ethernet holds additional advantages when considering the additional cost associated with rewiring for fiber technologies. This report characterizes the current capabilities of copper-based gigabit solutions and identifies requisite components for optimal performance. These aspects are compared under various Linux and Windows 2000 configurations as they relate to latency, throughput, and stability for a variety of hardware configurations.

Department

Department of Computer Science

Original Publication Date

1-1-2002

DOI of published version

10.1109/LCN.2002.1181845

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