Aspera, Intel Achieve Record File Transfer Speeds

Aspera, an IBM company, has achieved a new record for global WAN file transfer speeds of up to 80 Gbps on a single server. The record was possible through a collaboration with Intel. The partnership brought together the company’s transport software and Intel’s processing power. The organizations showcased their findings at Supercomputing 2014 in New Orleans this November.

The integration of next-generation Aspera FASP software, the Intel’s Xeon e5-2600 v3 product family and DDIO and DPDK doubles the previous speed benchmarks achieved with Aspera, a company press release states. The FASP network has no theoretical throughput limit and is only constrained by the available network bandwidth and hardware resources.

As a way to maximize high-throughput IO, the system features the Server Board S2600WT, a Xeon processor E5-2697 v3, DDR4 memory, Communications Chipset 89xx Series, XL710 Ethernet Controller (40GbE), Solid-State Drives P3700 Series, DPDK 1.7, Intel DDIO and AES-NI GCM encryption, all from Intel.

“The collaboration between Aspera and Intel addresses head-on the classical barriers to collaboration and scientific discovery – distance and data size – delivering on the promise of the Science DMZ, making it practical to transmit massive datasets across the WAN, removing all constraints on where the data, the analytics, and the expertise reside,” said Kristina Kermanshahche, chief architect of Health & Life Sciences, Intel Corporation.

For more information, visit Aspera and Intel.

Sources: Press materials received from the company and additional information gleaned from the company’s website.