[Bioclusters] gigabit ethernet performance

[Borries Demeler]

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
7703 Floyd Curl Drive, San Antonio, Texas 78229-3901
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