[Beowulf] ethernet performance testing

[Benson Muite]

This was nice (support has ended, but still runs):

http://open-mx.gforge.inria.fr/

Comparisons with other things would be interesting.

Benson


On 03/17/2017 04:33 PM, Lux, Jim (337C) wrote:
> This is a bit of a blast from the past question.. Back when Beowulfs 
> were the “new hot thing”, we all used Ethernet as the interconnect
> There was a bunch of traffic on the list about measuring Ethernet 
> performance using various utilities, and all the ways to optimize the 
> performance (zero copy Ethernet drivers and the like, some interfaces 
> just being slow, etc.).
>
> What’s the current strategy and tools for looking at the Ethernet 
> stack and identify?  I have a colleague who is working with a software 
> radio peripheral (USRP) that streams samples out, and he’s getting 
> better performance with USB3 than with GigE - it may be that this is 
> just the way it works USB is dedicated master/client, while GigE is 
> peer to peer.   So I suggested he do some back to back testing using a 
> pair of PCs to know what the limit is.
>
> And he turned it around and asked “so what tools can I use?”
>
> iperf?
> netcat?
>
> I’ll dig through the archives too..
>
>
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