Direct gigabit connection from mac to cluster

Using the last hint to get my mac recognized by the cluster (I run a wire from a second NIC card to the switch), I tested by throughput using NetPIPE. I used netpipe to compare the gigabit connection to the normal university connection, and this was the result:



Both seem pretty close to the theoretical limits for large packet sizes, so I can expect to get about a ten-fold increase in the speed of my network mounted disks over the private, gigabit network.