Performance evaluation of copper-based Gigabit Ethernet interfaces

Author

Gray, Paul ; Betz, Anthony

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci., Univ. of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls, IA, USA

fYear

2002

fDate

6-8 Nov. 2002

Firstpage

679

Lastpage

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.

Keywords

copper; delays; local area networks; network interfaces; performance evaluation; telecommunication traffic; GigE; Linux; Windows 2000; copper-based Gigabit Ethernet interfaces; hardware configurations; latency; optimal performance; performance evaluation; stability; throughput; Availability; Bandwidth; Costs; Delay; Ethernet networks; Hardware; High performance computing; Linux; Stability; Throughput;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Local Computer Networks, 2002. Proceedings. LCN 2002. 27th Annual IEEE Conference on

ISSN

0742-1303

Print_ISBN

0-7695-1591-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/LCN.2002.1181845

Filename

1181845