[Bioclusters] gigabit ethernet performance

[Dow Hurst]

Setting up RAM disks and moving data between them would be better.
Dow


Borries Demeler wrote:
> Just another benchmark for gigabit:
> 
> In copying from a dual Xeon with dual IDE RAID0 to a quad Xeon with
> RAID5 SCSI over gigabit I get 31 MB/sec (this was measured using
> the Linux "time" command on a 41 MB file). This is using rcp without
> compression/encryption. The filesystem on both ends is reiserfs.  I think
> this is pretty typical. Most likely the transfer speed will be greater
> when there is no disk overhead involved.
> 
> -Borries
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> Borries Demeler, Ph.D.
> Assistant Professor
> The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio
> Dept. of Biochemistry, MC 7760
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