This document discusses how big data is growing faster than Moore's law and how the network is becoming a bottleneck. It introduces Solarflare as a company providing high-performance networking solutions for applications handling big data workloads. Solarflare's products are optimized for financial services, HPC, storage and cloud/web applications. The document highlights how Solarflare's hardware and software can optimize network performance and reduce latency compared to standard server networking approaches. It also provides an example of a turnkey big data management solution leveraging Solarflare's networking products.

1. Big Data, Smarter Networks: Optimizing the
Network Infrastructure for Big Data
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Copyright © 2011 Solarflare Communications, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

2. Introducing Solarflare
• High-performance software
and hardware for 10GbE
server networking
• Mission-critical applications
– Securities and trading
“Solarflare’s product, EnterpriseOnload is a
– HPC robust, rigorously tested and fully supported
solution that addresses our demanding support
– Storage and service level requirements. In addition to
providing the highest-performance, lowest-
– Cloud/Web 2.0 latency hardware, Solarflare’s unique and
• Leader in financial services innovative application acceleration software
can be used to deploy quickly without any need
• Partnerships with Arista, to re-write our applications.”
Cisco, Couchbase, IBM, Andrew Bach
Juniper, Redhat, Oracle, Senior Vice President of Network Services for NYSE Euronext
VMware
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3. Data is Growing Faster than Moore’s Law
Business Analytics Requires a New Approach
Data Volume
Growing 44x
2010:
1.2
Zettabytes 2020: 35.2
Zettabytes IDC
Digital Universe
Study 2011
The Network is the Bottleneck
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Source: IDC Digital Universe Study, sponsored by EMC, May 2010

4. But Computing is More than Just Moore’s Law
• SandyBridge-Based
Servers/ Aka Romley
Motherboards
• Intel Integrated I/0
Up to 4 channels
DDR3 1600 Mhz
• Reduced bottlenecks
memory
• Increase performance
Up to 8 cores
Up to 20 MB cache
up to 80%
Integrated
PCI Express*
3.0
Up to 40 lanes
per socket
Can more than Double
I/O Performance1
Xeon
Direct Data I/O (DDIO) 2600
Family
Xeon
5600
Series
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5. SFN6122F & Xeon E5-2600 Deliver Winning Combination
• SFN6122F single-stream
latency is superb over all
message rates on Romley
platforms, right up to the
point of CPU core utilization
• Ultra-low jitter (sub-micro at
99Percentile)
• Benefits from Intel® Data
Direct I/O (DDIO) and
chipset IO – memory
bandwidth
• Message rate headroom –
sfnt-stream / openonload-201109-u2
20Mpps with 4x sfnt-streams
“Westmere” = 2x Xeon 5687 (3.6GHz)
“Romley” = 2x E5-2687W (3.1GHz) – DDR 1333
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6. Standard Server I/O Networking: RSS
• RSS spreads flows
randomly over cores
NIC receive-side scaling • Packets within a flow go to
VNIC VNIC VNIC VNIC same core
• Works well when
– Connections
ISR ISR ISR ISR
are long lived
– One thread per
connection
App App App App
– And the thread
happens to run
core0 core1 core2 core3 on the right
core
– Great for
network
benchmarks
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7. Smarter Server I/O Networking: Flow Affinity
NIC receive-side scaling • Hardware deterministically
VNIC VNIC VNIC VNIC
directs flows to the ideal
core for handling the load
• Google developed
ISR ISR ISR ISR Receive packet steering
(RPS)
• Solarflare developed
Accelerated RFS for
App App App App multiqueue hardware
core0 core1 core2 core3 • Supported today on
Solarflare adapters
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8. Cisco and Solarflare Achieve Dramatic Latency Reductions
for Interactive Web 2.0 Applications
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9. Big Data Management Solution
I/O Network CPU Hadoop OS Big Data
Interface Framework Management
3 - ioDrive2
Duo
1.2TB SFN5122F
ioMemory SFP + Dual Port 10GbE
3 GBytes/sec Server Adapter
2 - X5690 6 Core
12 Threads, 3.4 GHz
96GB RAM
V 1.0
Enterprise 6.2
• Hyve BigD series8 from Synnex
• Turnkey appliance-based big data management solution
• Fully integrated, optimized, and easily deployed, enabling rapid
implementation of a Hadoop environment in days rather than months
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10. Thank You!
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