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Performance Study of Winsock Direct With 10 Gb Ethernet RDMA-Enabled NIC

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Overview This paper describes a performance study conducted with the new 10 Gb Ethernet iWARP RDMA-enabled adapter from NetEffect, using Microsoft Winsock Direct Server Area Network technology. The paper starts with a brief summary of the Winsock Direct software architecture and the NetEffect hardware architecture. It provides initial performance results for bandwidth, CPU utilization, and latency. It analyzes the performance results, and concludes with some discussion on future work that can lead to further performance improvements.

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Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers	File Format	PDF
Date Published	October 2006
Format	White Papers
Topics	Ethernet, Network Interface Cards

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