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16,000 CWRU Computers Getting Gigabit Ethernet

lowlypeon writes "In a move that makes going back to college more tempting than usual, Case Western is installing fiber connections in 16,000 computers over the next year to give students a 1 gigabit per second Ethernet connection. Administrators aren't sure what anybody needs that kind of bandwidth for yet, but they are curious to see how it gets used."

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  1. FP? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    This would be 3 in how many days?

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  3. [on by] A modest proposal by poopbot by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

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  4. Gigabyte ethernet is faster than hard drives by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    It should be interesting to see what you can do with extremely quick messaging applications.

    Throughput aside, does anyone know what is the latency of Gigabyte ethernet? (On 100-BaseT you can only get a maximum of 1100 serial TCP round trips per second between two nodes).

    1. Re:Gigabyte ethernet is faster than hard drives by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      How is this offtopic, asshole?

      Read it again:

      It should be interesting to see what you can do with extremely quick messaging applications.

      Throughput aside, does anyone know what is the latency of Gigabyte ethernet? (On 100-BaseT you can only get a maximum of 1100 serial TCP round trips per second between two nodes).

  5. [OT] Re:going back to college by two-bookoo! · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    That is why you put something in their mouth - like an apple!

  6. Wow! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    Imagine a Beowulf cluster of these things!

    Sorry, but it had to be said.

  7. Another minor correction by beanyk · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    News Flash: nobody cares. As an alumni, I can assure you that in the real world, the name of our mutual alma mater is just too damn big. So chill.

    Unless you have multiple personalities, I suggest you're only an alumnus (or alumna, depending on gender). alumni is plural.