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Low Latency 10 GbE Switching for Data Center, Cluster and Storage Interconnect
Category: Storage, Data Management, Networking and Communications
Tags: ethernet, server, applications, data
Overview As the data center continues to evolve to meet rapidly escalating demands for higher levels of performance and resource virtualization, three rather distinct networking requirements have emerged. The typical server in a high performance data center may require connection to three switching fabrics: a LAN for connecting users and general networking, an Inter-Processor Communications (IPC) fabric for low latency message passing between compute cluster applications, and a storage fabric for access to shared storage/file resources. While Ethernet is the de facto technology for the general purpose LAN, it has been widely considered as a sub-optimal switching fabric for very high performance cluster interconnect IPC (e.g., for those MPI parallel applications that require extremely low end-to-end latency).
- Publisher
- Force10 Networks
- File Format
- Date Published
- Sep 10, 2008
- Format
- White Papers
- Topics
- Data Center, Switching, Storage Management
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