Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Scheduled Transfer Protocol on Linux | Date | Thu, 10 Feb 2000 19:32:14 -0800 | From | Larry McVoy <> |
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: I'd like to announce the source code release for Scheduled Transfer : Protocol (STP) support in Linux. SGI played a major role in the : development of STP to address 2 sides of the performance coin at the : same time: high bandwidth and low latency. Current GSN hardware with : STP achieves 720MB/sec on a single stream in bandwidth and 6 usec in : latency validating these combined design goals.
Folks, I was at SGI when they did this stuff and I've used it personally quite a bit. It's very cool. I think this is definitely worth a look and I'll be playing around with it.
One thing that I've dreamed about for a while is getting the disk drive vendors to put STP down in the drives. Then we throw out the SCSI/IDE cables and use RJ45 connectors to talk to both the network and the disks. Think hot plug. Cool, no?
--lm
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