HECN Demonstrates 100Gps File Transfer
January 4, 2013
The Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) High End Computer Networking (HECN) team demonstrated file transfers over 100 Gbit per second (100Gps) at the NASA booth at Super Computing 2012
(SC12) using RAID servers built by the team. Local network connections were provided by SCinet network, and over the Wide Area via the Department of Energy's ANI/ESnet, Starlight, Sidera Network, and Mid-Atlantic Exchange (MAX). The servers consisted of dual Intel Sandy Bridge EP XEON processors, two Hot Lava 3-port 40 Gig NICs, four LSI 9271-8i raid controllers, and 32 OCZ 120GB Vertex3 SSDs with a combined total hardware cost of less than $20k which represents record speeds for low-cost servers. The HECN research results are essential to advance current and future massive-scale traffic switching technologies needed to support Petascale science and supercomputing over high-performance transport networks.
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The attached pictures show the SC12 demonstration diagram and the server rack used at the NASA booth.
