Aspera and Intel Collaborate to Achieve Record File Transfer Speeds up to 80 Gbps

“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."

Michelle Munson, President, CEO and Co-Founder, Aspera, an IBM® company

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Aspera and Intel Collaborate to Achieve Record File Transfer Speeds up to 80 Gbps
Aspera and Intel Collaborate to Achieve Record File Transfer Speeds up to 80 Gbps

View the 2014 press release, incorporating 40GbE, NVMe SSDs, PCIe gen3, and AES-GCM encryption, achieving 80 Gbps, sending the equivalent of 1 TB of data over a WAN in approximately two minutes.

Previous phases (2012-2013):

Read the Phase I whitepaper, incorporating 10GbE, Intel DDIO and SR-IOV technologies, enabling predictable 10Gbps over global WAN conditions, using bare metal and virtualized hardware with standard packet sizes.

Read the Phase II whitepaper, incorporating 10GbE, PCIe gen2, SATA SSDs, and Data Plane Development Kit (DPDK), achieving 40 Gbps single stream data transfer speeds.

Drivers, Solutions, and Experiments in Data Movement for Health and Life Sciences
Drivers, Solutions, and Experiments in Data Movement for Health and Life Sciences

BioTeam’s Ari Berman and Chris Dagdigian present “Drivers, Solutions, and Experiments” at the Internet2 Technology Exchange 2015, discussing the universal data movement & management challenges faced by scientists worldwide, the promise of Science DMZs, and the need for robust Data Transfer Node solutions like Aspera.

Aspera's FASP Protocol Uses Standard Hardware and DPDK to Achieve 80Gbps Data Transfer

Charles Shiflett of IBM Aspera Solutions presents a technology and design approach to send data at a rate in excess of 1 TB every two minutes.

DPDK (Data Plane Development Kit) is a set of data plane libraries and network interface controller drivers for fast packet processing, currently managed as an open-source project under the Linux Foundation. Learn more at https://www.dpdk.org/

The Next Platform article, "IBM, Aspera Transfer Network Lessons to Wider Markets"
The Next Platform article, "IBM, Aspera Transfer Network Lessons to Wider Markets"

In August 2015, Nicole Hemsoth of The Next Platform recaps the Aspera - Intel collaboration, the IBM acquisition, and the extension of the results into broader CDN solution offerings. Aspera reports that Netflix was able to boost their transfer rates by 10x over prior methods.

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Acknowledgements

  • Aspera: Charles Shiflett, Michelle Munson

  • BioTeam: Ari Berman, Chris Dagdigian, Adam Kraut, Stan Gloss

  • GenoSpace: John Quackenbush, Niall O'Connor

  • Intel: Muthurajan Jayakumar, Kiran Patil, Scott Nichols, Chris Black, Andrey Kudryavtsev, Cindy Peach, Nick White, George Pappas, Ketan Paranjape

  • Marketing & Video Production: Kathleen Ellertson, Amber Jackson, Kristine Raabe