AMD/Tyan/SUSE Set LAN Server Throughput Record [LWN.net]

The Neal Nelson & Associates benchmarking laboratory has announced the achievement of a new server bandwidth record using AMD Opteron processors running SUSE LINUX Professional 9.2. "One endurance test ran continuously for 48 hours and transferred over 1,000 terabits (1 petabit) of user data between 96 FTP client machines and the single FTP server. These data rates were achieved with the common IPV4 protocol and standard 1,500 byte packets."

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AMD/Tyan/SUSE Set LAN Server Throughput Record

Posted May 13, 2005 1:12 UTC (Fri) by bfitz (guest, #4844) [Link] (1 responses)

I'm curious how they can get a sustained 6.5 Gigabit/sec data rate from only 6 Gigabit ports.

AMD/Tyan/SUSE Set LAN Server Throughput Record

Posted May 13, 2005 18:10 UTC (Fri) by farnz (subscriber, #17727) [Link]

Full duplex.

Less tersely, a GbE port running in full duplex mode can send 1GBit/s and receive 1GBit/s independently (for a peak speed of 2GBit/s). So, with six ports, the maximum data rate is 12GBit/s.