On Mon, 23 Aug 2010 05:59:43 -0400 Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
On Sun, 22 Aug 2010 22:23:19 -1000, Michael Painter said:
Researchers in South Korea have built a networking router that transmits data at record speeds from components found in most high-end desktop computers http://www.technologyreview.com/communications/26096/?nlid=3423
Two great quotes from the article:
"That isn't fast enough to take advantage of the full speed of a typical network card, which operates at 10 gigabytes per second."
Anybody got a network of PCs that have cards that run at 10GBytes/sec? ;)
I missed that, and that answers the "was it a GigaBytes verses Gigabits error" question. Nothing new here by the looks of it - people in this thread were getting those sorts of speeds a year ago out of PC hardware under Linux - http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/7/15/234 "I have achieved a collective throughput of 66.25 Gbit/s." "We've achieved 70 Gbps aggregate unidirectional TCP performance from one P6T6 based system to another."