SSL server performance is critical, since a single SSL transaction can take as many server resources as hundreds or thousands of normal requests. After setting some context, the speakers will present a case study of SSL performance. HP's IPA offerings and the performance they represent will be described. This will include a basic description of the generic benefits that Itanium architecture brings and some specific measurements that demonstrate those benefits. The presentation will then review the SSL protocol at a high level, with attention to performance aspects.
End users can run the benchmark without paying licensing fees or building large test setups.
The presenters will explain how the benchmark is constructed and how it is run. Proper software selection and system tuning allows HP to achieve high levels of SSL performance with excellent multiprocessor scaling on HP-PA and Itanium architectures. A comparison of results will cover several different systems. Dave Holt received an S.B. degree in computer science and engineering from MIT in 1981. Copyright 2001 Interex.