As a follow on to Ross’ post about the latest STAC benchmark test featuring the performance of RMDS (Reuters Market Data System) 6.3 on SLERT (SUSE Linux Enterprise Real Time) 10, The Register’s Timothy Morgan wrote a piece that picked up on this “arms race” of sorts.  Which vendor’s solution comes out on top?

The two takeaways from the much smarter Novell tests are that InfiniBand can make a huge difference in raw throughput on the RMDS workload, and that SLERT plus InfiniBand managed to edge out Red Hat’s Enterprise MRG in the latency-optimized portions of the test.

Read the full article here.

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