The Transition to 10 Gigabit Ethernet Unified Networking: Cisco and Intel Lead the Way

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Source: Intel estimates as of January 2010. Performance comparison using SPECjbb*2005 business operations per second (bops). Results have been estimated based on internal Intel analysis and are
provided for informational purposes only. Any difference in system hardware or software design or configuration may affect actual performance.
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IDC, “Server Workloads Forecast,” 2009.
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IDC, “The Internet Reaches Late Adolescence,” December 2009.
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8x network: 800 terabytes per second of IP traffic estimated on internal Intel analysis “Network Supply/Demand 2010–2020” forecast; 16x storage: 60 exabytes of data stored from Barclays Capital
“Storage Bits” September 2009, extrapolation by Intel for 2015; 20x compute: Intel internal long-range planning forecast, extrapolated to 1 billion virtual servers using one virtual machine per core.
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IDC WW Storage Systems Tracker, December 2009.
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Test configuration: Iometer v. 2006.7.27, number of managers = 1, number of workers / manager = 30 (total number of workers) = 30, number of logical unit numbers (LUNs) = 30 ,
number of outstanding I/O operations = 50, I/O size = 512 bytes. 10 iSCSI targets with 3 LUNs per target. Target is StarWind Enterprise configured with RAM disk.
SUT: Supermicro 6026T-NTR+, Intel
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Xeon
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processor W 5680 (12 M cache, 3.33 GHz, 6.40 GT/s Intel
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QuickPath Technology), 24 GB DDR3, Microsoft Windows Server* 2008 R2 x64.
Network configuration: Cisco Nexus
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5020 Switch, Intel
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82599EB 10 Gigabit Ethernet Controller connected at 10 Gbps.
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