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An Application For 10-Gigabit Networking

Posted by timothy on from the moving-pixels-around dept.

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.

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  1. Amazing! by molrak · · Score: 4, Funny

    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.

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  2. A real use by skydude_20 · · Score: 4, Funny

    This experiment shortly followed by a another showing how fast they could move MP3 collections

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  3. Re:another great use by PacoTaco · · Score: 4, Funny
    wireless 10Gb would be even better

    Great, then someone driving by could steal all of your MP3s in under a minute.