Supermicro's 1U Ultra Server with Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7.5 using a Solarflare network stack achieves World Record on
STAC-N1™ benchmark with Mean Latency of 2.3 microseconds
SAN JOSE, California,
June 20, 2018 /PRNewswire/
-- Super Micro Computer, Inc. (NASDAQ: SMCI), a
global leader in enterprise computing, storage, networking
solutions and green computing technology, along with Red Hat and
Solarflare today announced a new world record for lowest latency on
the well-known STAC-N1 benchmark from STAC® (the Securities
Technology Analysis Center) for the world's leading financial
institutions.
STAC-N1 measures the performance of a host network stack using a
market data style workload. This benchmark was performed on a pair
of Supermicro SYS-1029UX-LL1-S16 servers, each with dual 8-core
Intel® Xeon® Scalable 6144 (Gold) processors overclocked at
4.18GHz. The servers were also loaded with Red Hat's Red Hat
Enterprise Linux 7.5 operating system and Solarflare X2522
Adapters. Compared to all prior publicly released STAC-N1
results, the bare metal system demonstrated the lowest mean latency
of 2.3 microseconds at both the base rate (100k messages per second) and the highest rate
tested (1 million mps).
"For Hyper-Speed servers, Supermicro continues to lead the way
with innovative new servers that push performance to the limits
with advanced optimizations that fully leverage the latest
processors, network interfaces and NVMe flash storage," said
Charles Liang, President and CEO of
Supermicro. "With our latest generation of Hyper-Speed Ultra
Servers optimized for high-frequency trading and related financial
analysis applications, Supermicro has significantly improved the
latency performance to provide customers with the fastest systems
in the world. These new Hyper-Speed solutions not only maximize
performance by introducing Hyper-Turbo mode but also provide
enterprise class reliability for mission critical
applications."
"Linux is an operating system of choice when it comes to extreme
workloads, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux is the foundation for many
deployments of this nature," said Craig
Muzilla, senior vice president, Core Products and Cloud
Services Business Group, Red Hat. "Through our collaboration with
Solarflare and Supermicro, we're pleased to have provided the
platform for the most recent STAC-N1 benchmark, setting a world
record in the process."
"The STAC N1 test results represent two important milestones for
the industry," said Ahmet Houssein,
vice president of marketing at Solarflare. "First, we have proven
it's possible to virtualize using containers for high-performance
applications such as electronifc trading. In addition, the results
show that Kubernetes and container, or cloud-based networking,
performs efficiently under extreme scale environments, and is the
future of application development. We applaud the work of
Supermicro, Red Hat and our team in achieving these results and
look forward to future collaborations."
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About Super Micro Computer, Inc. (NASDAQ:
SMCI)
Supermicro® (NASDAQ: SMCI), the leading innovator in
high-performance, high-efficiency server technology is a premier
provider of advanced Server Building Block Solutions® for Data
Center, Cloud Computing, Enterprise IT, Hadoop/Big Data, HPC and
Embedded Systems worldwide. Supermicro is committed to protecting
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provides customers with the most energy-efficient,
environmentally-friendly solutions available on the market.
About Solarflare
Solarflare is pioneering server
connectivity for neural-class networks. From silicon to firmware to
software, Solarflare provides a comprehensive, integrated set of
technologies for distributed, ultra-scale, software-defined
datacenters. The Solarflare XtremeScale Architecture is a design
framework which includes a comprehensive suite of features for
ultra-scale environments: high-bandwidth, ultra-low-latency,
ultra-scale connectivity, software-defined, secure with hardware
firewalls, and instrumented for line-speed telemetry. The company's
solutions are available from leading distributors and value-added
resellers, as well as from major global manufacturers.
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