10Gb/s transfer speeds (in and out of the cloud) now possible

Grazed from BroadcastEngineering. Author: Michael Grotticceli.

The key to seamless cloud computing is the fast and reliable transfer of files in and out of the remote environment in which they are stored. The faster the transfer, the more productive and profitable a broadcaster can be. At the recent BioIT World 2013 conference in Boston, Aspera, a provider of file transfer software, said that, working with Intel Corp., it was able to send files at 10Gb/s speeds (called “fasp transfers”) using its software running on an Intel Xeon processor E5-2600 workstation in a virtualized (cloud) computing environment.

The companies said initial benchmark tests compared the performance of Aspera transfers on a high-performance Intel system versus a similar system that did not support Intel’s Data Direct I/O Technology. Additional tests focused on data transfer over a 10GigE connection between high-end Intel systems with built-in support for Single-Root I/O Virtualization (SR-IOV), as well as over a WAN connection with varying degrees of latency (50ms to 500ms) and packet loss (0.1 percent to 5 percent)…

The results were published in a joint Aspera/Intel whitepaper that illustrates how Intel’s DDIO technology allows Ethernet controllers to route I/O traffic directly to the processor cache and, with built-in support for SR-IOV technology, achieve approximately the same throughput in both virtualized and physical computing environments. This includes a 300-percent throughput improvement versus a baseline system that did not contain support for DDIO and SR-IOV (showing the advantages of Intel’s Xeon processor E5-2600 product family)…

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