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I'm really confused by "about $15k of x86 gear ... The minute AMD K10 and Intel Nehalem dropped, high routing performance was mostly a software problem". What k
by versteegen 11mo ago
I'm really confused by "about $15k of x86 gear ... The minute AMD K10 and Intel Nehalem dropped, high routing performance was mostly a software problem". What kind of $15k machine would you have needed? That's a heck of a lot more than even the most expensive K10 2008 CPU (which according to Wikipedia seems to be Opteron 8384 (quad core, 2.7GHz, 1.0GHz HT, $2149 November 2008), supports up to 8 CPUs per machine, I guess that's what you mean.)
- hapless 11mo agoThe first x86 project I saw doing line speed route+filter on 10gpbs used 4x top-end Nehalem chips, an output of the RouteBrick project Although, their original paper says they used a 2-socket prototype and got some very impressive numbers: https://www.sigops.org/s/conferences/sosp/2009/papers/dobrescu-sosp09.pdf https://www.sigops.org/s/conferences/sosp/2009/papers/dobres... So maybe you could skate by with a slightly cheaper machine ;)