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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