New architectures might be helpful to achieve such throughput e.g. Myricom pci-e Gen2 10GE cards on new Intel Nehalem based servers.
-Azher Leo Bicknell wrote: > In a message written on Fri, May 15, 2009 at 10:25:12PM -0400, > valdis.kletni...@vt.edu wrote: >> Did you check PCI bus bandwidth? That's probably going to be the biggest >> constraint on "a few 10GBE interfaces" if they all get going full blast. >> Remember that each packet is going to burn bandwidth twice - once in and >> once out... > > PCIe, x8 or x16, which is serial point to point. > > http://www.csc.kth.se/~olofh/10G_OSR/10Gbps.pdf > > 25 Gb/sec across 4x10G ports on higher end but far from topped out > hardware. >