Benchmark testing shows that the SPARC T3 processor running the IPsec AES-256-CCM can operate at near-line speed over a 10 Gigabit Ethernet (10 GbE) network, blogs Joerg Moellenkamp, who goes on to write that these results demonstrate more than 2x the throughput of the latest generation Intel Xeon processor. He adds that, with dedicated hardware support for encryption/decryption for AES and eleven other ciphers, the SPARC T3 processor is 12 times faster than the Intel Xeon processor for in-memory RSA decryption. Oracle's own announcement of these results asserts that, "This outstanding cryptographic throughput performance makes servers equipped with SPARC T3 processors an attractive platform for applications requiring secure network communications."
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The Oracle white paper "Enabling End-to-End 10 Gigabit Ethernet in Oracle’s Sun Netra ATCA Product Family" gives readers an overview of Oracle’s 10 Gigabit Ethernet-enabled Advanced Telecom Computing Architecture (ATCA) platforms and the spectrum of available Oracle Sun blades. With the Telcom industry moving to meet its needs for timing-dependent, high-throughput packet-processing applications with off-the-shelf hardware that typically have required custom hardware, the paper outlines the full ecosystem of ATCA products, highlighting how 10 GbE Ethernet is integrated into the Oracle ATCA blade family. The paper also provides an architectural overview of the SPARC T3, UltraSPARC T2, Intel Xeon, and AMD Opteron processor-powered ATCA blades, the 10 GbE Ethernet ATCA switch, the 10 GbE Ethernet System Platform, available Advanced Rear Transition Modules, and carrier-grade software that can be used to enhance and manage ATCA platforms. An additional appendix discusses considerations for power planning.
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A recent BestPerf blog on performance of the Oracle Sun Storage 7410 system attached via 10 Gigabit Ethernet to a cluster of Oracle's Sun Blade X6275 M2 server modules demonstrated up to a 40% improvement over the previous generation server module in a 3D VTI Reverse Time Migration application, a heavily used geophysical imaging and modeling application for Oil & Gas Exploration. This balanced server/storage combination showed linear scalability for the total application throughput, including the I/O and MPI communication, to produce a final 3-D seismic depth imaged cube for interpretation. The report notes that the final image write time from the Sun Blade X6275 M2 server module nodes to Oracle's Sun Storage 7410 system achieved 10GbE line speed of 1.25 GBytes/second or better write performance. The effects of I/O buffer caching on the Sun Blade X6275 M2 server module nodes and 34 GByte write optimized cache on the Sun Storage 7410 system gave up to 1.8 GBytes/second effective write performance.
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The transformation of IT operations from a cost center to a profit center, says the Oracle white paper "Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud: A Brief Introduction" is the result, in part, of the development of a centralized, automated, scalable, monolithic infrastructure such as the subject technology. The paper calls the Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud " ... the world’s first engineered system specifically designed to provide enterprises with a foundation for secure, mission-critical private cloud capable of virtually unlimited scale, unbeatable performance, and previously unimagined management simplicity."
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