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An Application For 10-Gigabit Networking
Chip Smith sent us a short excerpt from a news article on Supercomputing Online:
"Just yesterday Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and several key partners put together a demonstration system running a real-world
scientific application to produce data on one cluster, and then send
the resulting data across a 10 Gigabit Ethernet connection to another
cluster, where it is then rendered for visualization." Here's the link to follow if you'd like to read more on this experiment.
Their first project is to create a virtual dictionary and spell checker so that the Slashdot editors make sure that their posts to the front page are spelled properly. As an added bonus, it'll even check grammar! Unfortunately, the scientists aren't sure if there's enough bandwidth available yet to correct all the mistakes.
You're only as smart as your brain.
This experiment shortly followed by a another showing how fast they could move MP3 collections
Jesus saves souls and redeems them for valuable cash prizes
Can you imagine the pings on game servers for Quake3 or counterstrike? 0 to 1 tops!
BEOWULF! Say it with me now...
Think of the porn I can download now! er, [notices significant other in room] think of the amount of data I could research and the time I'd save....
Great, then someone driving by could steal all of your MP3s in under a minute.
What I really want to know is how many LOC's (Library of Congress) this is per second....
10.6 gigabits is the expected evolution in networking technology. Take a look at the engineers' picture; How about an evelution in fashion and not wearing socks with sandals. That would be impressive.