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- From: vjs@rhyolite.wpd.sgi.com (Vernon Schryver)
- Subject: Re: FAST!!! TCP-IP Machines
- Message-ID: <s6s7e20@rhyolite.wpd.sgi.com>
- Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc. Mountain View, CA
- References: <1992Nov10.154228.29047@panther.mot.com>
- Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 20:28:11 GMT
- Lines: 28
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- In article <1992Nov10.154228.29047@panther.mot.com>, ronf@panther3.panther.mot.com (Ron Feigen) writes:
- > Has anybody in netland done research on how fast different platforms process
- > communication protocols? I am currently working on an application that relies
- > heavily (very heavily) on TCP-IP. I am currently using Sun SparC II's but I
- > would really like to know if there are machines that are better suited to my
- > application.
- >
- > Any info would be greatly appreciated!!!!
-
-
- It might help to be more specific.
-
- All reasonable machines are now about the same speed--over a 56Kbit/sec
- link. All good machines are now about the same speed over ethernet--a little
- more than 1MByte/sec.
-
- On the other hand, Cray makes machines that do about 1Gbit/sec.
- (I have a mental block about the exact numbers, which were over the
- loopback interface and two flavors of HIPPI.)
-
- In between, DEC was showing machines without labels at Interop that
- were running at about 95Mbit/sec over FDDI. (They said details about
- the machines would be announced Nov. 10. No doubt everyone has seen
- the numbers in comp.arch.) Another vendor in a nearby booth (blush)
- was running somewhat faster, also over FDDI.
-
-
- Vernon Schryver, vjs@sgi.com
-