Gigabit Ethernet Goes to War
The US Navy continued to ramp up network power this week by signing Boeing to a five-year, $42.9 million to upgrade and support the Gigabit Ethernet networks it is building on its guided missile destroyers.
In addition, NASA and TTTech will collaborate on space network standards that will lead to an open space Ethernet standard suitable for deployment in upcoming space networks in NASA programs and space systems.
Meanwhile at NASA’s Ames Research Center, the Emergent Network Technology Testbed group said recently it was using cTap appliances to provide network traffic visibility and behavioral monitoring; troubleshooting and debugging; monitoring of packet loss and compliance to service level agreements; and a centralized view of performance, capacity and availability across multiple 10 Gigabit links.
The cTap appliances support the agency’s High End Computing Capability (HECC) project, which includes Pleiades, the world’s fourth fastest supercomputer. NASA’s Pleiades supercomputer has 51,200 processor-cores and is capable of 609 trillion floating point calculations per second. NASA uses it for projects such as ocean and atmosphere climate change modeling, space vehicle simulations and models of dark matter, for example.
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