PCI-Express Motherboards: Sun T2000

Motherboard performance with Myri-10G NICs
Sun Fire T2000

Motherboard:	Sun Fire T2000
CPU Type:	UltraSPARC-T1
Number of CPUs:	8
CPU Speed (GHz)	1.00
Chipset:	Sun Fire PCI Express (behind a PLX 8532 PCI Express Switch)
Interrupt Type:	xPIC
Write Combining:	Disabled
Solaris Kernel:	5.10 Generic_118822-25
Myri10GE Driver version:	1.0.0

*Test results using Myri-10G NICs without a switch*
Hardware Write Speed (Gb/s)	11.608
Hardware Read Speed (Gb/s)	11.360
Hardware Read/Write (Bidirectional) Speed (Gb/s)	14.648
Netperf TCP STREAM, MTU 9000 (Mb/s)	9193.00
Netperf TCP SENDFILE, MTU 9000 (Mb/s)	N/A
Netperf UDP STREAM, MTU 9000 (Mb/s)	N/A
Netperf TCP STREAM, MTU 1500 (Mb/s)	N/A
Netperf TCP SENDFILE, MTU 1500 (Mb/s)	N/A
Netperf UDP STREAM, MTU 1500 (Mb/s)	N/A

Notes:

The peer was a Sun Fire T1000 with 6 CPUs. Only TCP_STREAM testing with jumbo frames was done. The results posted are from 10 copies of netperf -H T1000 -l60 -- -s98304 -S98304 running in parallel.

Last updated: 11 January 2007