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NetBSD Sets Internet2 Land Speed World Record

Posted by timothy on from the showoffs dept.

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/"

8 of 336 comments (clear)

  1. No matter by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    They will still get slashdotted.

  2. Question... by 8tim8 · · Score: 5, Funny
    SUNET has transferred around 840 GigaBytes of data in less than 30 minutes

    Does this mean we've broken the "station wagon loaded with DVD's" barrier yet?

    1. Re:Question... by AhBeeDoi · · Score: 5, Funny
      Does this mean we've broken the "station wagon loaded with DVD's" barrier yet?
      Not quite. However, we're appproching the Mini-Cooper barrier.
    2. Re:Question... by PacoTaco · · Score: 5, Funny

      My Netflix subscription works out to about 60 KB/s.

  3. Mandatory RIAA/MPAA Comment by FlameboyC11 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Somebody should show Valentini this, I wonder what he'd say...

    Val: "You students transfered how much?"
    Sunnet: "About 30 movies a minute"
    Val: "Un-fucking beli-Oh wait, I already said that..."

  4. Nothing like.. by cmacmanus · · Score: 5, Funny

    ..transferring 840 gb of swedish porn across the pond. ;)

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  5. Re:Huh? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    What is a petabit-meter?

    Think of it like 3 meters per acregallon of footyards/second divided by hectares per ohm.

  6. Re:Can we get a Uhaul trailer? by kidgenius · · Score: 5, Funny

    Ok, time to toss a few 250GB harddrives into an SR-71 flying at Mach 3. We cannot be outdone by mere information over wires!