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

fp

[Anonymous Coward]

i rule

Re:fp

[Anonymous Coward]

YOU ACHIEVE IT!

Re:fp

[Anonymous Coward]

thanks, man. i appreciate that.

That's one fast corpse

[Anonymous Coward]

so close

[Anonymous Coward]

I was so close to fp...

You posted this last week.

[stratjakt]

Thanks for listening.

Imagine

[Anonymous Coward]

Imagine a beowulf cluster of graveyards.

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Re:Cue pr0n jokes

[Anonymous Coward]

What have a girlfriend and a condom got in common?

They spend more time in your wallet than on your dick.

Re:Huh?

[vthokiestm]

Damn those tree-huggers, taking over anything. Has anyone else seen that big Richard Pryor PETA billboard on Second Ave in New York...and now this? What does information transfer have to do with animal ethics? ;)

as a friend said while reading this article...

[Ruliz Galaxor]

if internet2 is so fast, then why do you want to replace internet4 by internet6 instead of internet2?

It took me a few seconds to realize he was confusing IP with Internet. After that I said it was impossible to send email over internet2 and he seemed quite satisfied with the answer ;)

sig(h)

The Quick and the Dead !

[Anonymous Coward]

It's dead, but it is fast? Click here to see another example of this.

Re:link to a relevant page ...

[grazzy]

hehe,no, the google ad owned me ;)

Sweet

[foidulus]

Now I can get my Swedish Bikini team pictures faster than ever!

My personal speed test..

[hopbine]

is how quickly I can download the latest MS patch. Don't laugh too much, with an ADSL line it's around 2.6 Mb/s

Re:Cue pr0n jokes

[DA-MAN]

Theres no way you're gonna get 840gigs of Necrophilia porn on the internet. Must have been home made....

Just in time for Janus

[nurb432]

Now we can download pirate proof movies and songs at even greater speed!

Of course we cant watch or listen to them, but man... hell of a download rate.

Not surprising

[Anonymous Coward]

Rocket-powered corpses make very fast toboggans.

CD-filled station wagon?

[TechnoFreek]

Why use DVDs in a station wagon when you can use the Creative Nomad Jukebox Zen Xtra (60 GB, arguably smaller size:storage ration) in a greyhound bus? hell, strap some rockets onto the bus and you can make it even faster.

Re:Here's a new Fast *BSD Costume

[grub]

hahaha!

Frickin' hilarious. The mods that hammer you with a "Troll" hit need to get an enema and lighten up. I'm a big BSD fan and loved it.

Re:That'll learn em.

[zoloto]

The achieved speed was 69.073 Petabit-meters/second

69 PM/s ?

damn, what on earth would make you want to 69 to a dying/pms'ing... oh wait, this is a distro?!

*ducks*

Trolled You Have Been

[Anonymous Coward]

Trolled you have been. Lost you have. A nice day you should have.

Re:But What About SMP and the Threaded TCP Stack?

[Anonymous Coward]

now i know, you're not really a troll. you're a lunatic.