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SGI and ERUCES 64-bit Technologies Improve Cryptographic Transaction Throughput by Nearly Eight Times

http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/050308/sftu081_1.html
During performance testing of the ERUCES EFE V product suite running on the Altix 350 server at SGI's Global Benchmark Center in Mountain View, Calif., performance peaked at more than 6,000 cryptographic (encrypt/decrypt) transactions per second. This is an improvement of nearly eight times the performance previously achieved using the same methodology in ERUCES test labs on a 32-bit processor-based system. The Altix 350 server was configured with two Intel® Itanium® 2 1.6GHz/6MB cache processors and 2GB of RAM running a standard 64-bit Linux operating environment distribution. These results -- in particular running on a two-processor system -- are significant because it demonstrates that an enterprise implementation can be achieved in even the most demanding and extended-use cases without mission-impacting data access latencies.