NetBSD Sets Internet2 Land Speed World Record

Daniel de Kok writes "Researchers of the Swedish University Network (SUNET) have beaten the Internet2 Land Speed Record using two Dell 2650 machines with single 2GHz CPUs running NetBSD 2.0 Beta. SUNET has transferred around 840 GigaBytes of data in less than 30 minutes, using a single IPv4 TCP stream, between a host at the Luleå University of Technology and a host connected to a Sprint PoP in San Jose, CA, USA. The achieved speed was 69.073 Petabit-meters/second. According to the research team, NetBSD was chosen 'due to the scalability of the TCP code.'"

"More information about this record including the NetBSD configuration can be found at: http://proj.sunet.se/LSR2/
The website of the Internet2 Land Speed Record (I2-LSR) competition is located at: http://lsr.internet2.edu/"

Comments

Re:as a friend said while reading this article...

[dustmite]

Hmm .. note to knee-jerk-style moderators, parent isn't off-topic. Please actually read messages before you moderate them.

Re:That'll learn em.

[Anonymous Coward]

Yup. Apple is now the largest UNIX distributor on the planet. That's a fact, not FUD or lies.

Re:Why TCP...

[DA-MAN]

You are one stupid motherfucker. My point is that it is possible to transfer files via UDP (which has less overhead than tcp) and still get a file from point a to point b in tact. Read the fucking parent post bitch.

So, you put error checking into UDP.
Hmmm what could we call that???

I would call that eDonkey, or tftp or a slew of other protocols that can transfer data via udp and still ensure that the data is in tact.

You are the biggest fuckhead ever to post on slashdot. This is a post I am going to print out on the printer at work and show people, so they can laugh at you as well. You are a super-duper fucking moron. I'm still laughing.

You have got to be one of the many MCSE's out there, probably just passed your Networking test a few days ago too huh....