On Sun, May 19, 2013 at 11:48:17AM -0400, Nick Khamis wrote: > > But really you should get some newerish hardware with on-cpu PCIe and > > memory controllers (and preferably QPI). That architectural jump really > > upped the networking throughput of commodity hardware, probably by > > orders of magnitude (people were doing 40Gbps routing using standard > > Linux 5 years ago). > Any ideas of the setup??? Maybe as far as naming some chipset, interface? > And xserver that is the best candidate. Will google.. :)
Base model e5 CPU is generally considered adequate, and has direct link between cache and PCI bypassing memory. http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/io/data-direct-i-o-faq.html Motherboard is likely to have i350 chipset for ethernet. http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/ethernet-controllers/ethernet-i350-server-adapter-brief.html Ben.
