On Tuesday 26 August 2008, S, Senthilprabu (NSN - IN/Bangalore) wrote:
> Hello David Green,
>
> > Although the algorithm may be 20% quicker, there are many
> > other factors involved with scp transfer speed (network
> > bandwidth/latency, harddisk speed, etc). A 20% increase in
> > algorithm performance won't necessarily translate to an
> > overall 20% increase in scp transfer speeds.
>
> I agree, but the test was carried on a machines where CPU idle time was
> around 90% through a dedicated 1 GB network interface directly connected
> between the two machine i.e. I tried transferring files across the
> cluster nodes using the dedicated cluster interconnects. Using the
> normal LAN, the time consumed was so much.
>
> Bottomline is there any way to improve the speed like making use of
> UMAC-64 etc....?

http://www.psc.edu/networking/projects/hpn-ssh/

/Peter

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