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EAST Note 95-05, June 22 1995.

FIBRE CHANNEL PERFORMANCES WITH IBM EQUIPMENT


Carlo Miron, Massimo Bernaschi

ECSEC-IBM, Rome

miron@vaxlnl.lnl.infn.it, massimo@vnet.ibm.com

Fabrice Chantemargue, Susana Munoz

CERN, Geneva

chante@sunrans.cern.ch, munoz@sunrans.cern.ch

Gaetano Maron

INFN, Legnaro

maron@vxcern.cern.ch

I. - Introduction
II. - High Energy Physics application
III. - Low Energy Physics application
IV. - Communication Benchmarks
A. - Using TCP/IP protocols
1. - Estimation of the IBM Fibre Channel Fabric Latency
2. - Measurements when the Fabric is loaded
B. - Using Raw Socket: a light weight protocol
V. - Concluding Remarks
VI. - References
VII. - Appendix

RD11 - 22 JUN 95
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