STAC Tests More 10GigE Technology
STAC has released more test results on 10 Gigabit Ethernet (10GigE), using technology from two vendors: Blade Network Technologies (BNT) and Chelsio Communications. BNT offers a 10GigE switch module for the IBM BladeCenter, and Chelsio provides 10 GigE NICs. STAC tested the technology under market data workloads because the vendors believed that the combination of the high-speed BNT switch with Chelsio’s TCP Offload Engine (TOE) would improve both latency and throughput in market data environments. The tests revealed the lowest mean latency and the lowest standard deviation of latency ever reported with RMDS.
Running the standard Reuters Producer 50/50 fanout test with a stacked topology, STAC examined overall server output with and without TOE enabled. It then performed the standard RMDS latency tests. In addition to the BNT and Chelsio networking products, the stack under test consisted of an IBM BladeCenter platform using Intel Xeon dual-core 3.0 GHz blades running Red Hat Enterprise Linux version 5.1.
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