Internet2 Speed Record Broken

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Internet2 Speed Record Broken

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Friday September 3, 2004 @12:09AM from the about-that-time-again dept.

RevKa writes "InternetNews.com has a report of a new Internet2 land-speed record. The old record was nearly cut in half: the two parties, California Institute of Technology (Caltech) and the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), 'transferred 859 gigabytes of data in less than 17 minutes.' InternetNews goes on to say, 'This record speed of 6.63Gbps is equivalent to transferring a full-length DVD movie in four seconds.' Various scientific purposes were mentioned 'as well as commercial applications from entertainment to oil and gas exploration.' The article ended with hardware specs 'S2io's Xframe 10 GbE server adapter, Cisco 7600 Series Routers, Newisys 4300 servers using AMD Opteron processors, Itanium servers and the 64-bit version of Windows Server 2003.'"

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wow by Anonymous Coward · 2004-09-03 00:11 · Score: 5, Funny

how much bandwidth does doom3 need for network gaming?
1. Re:wow by AviLazar · 2004-09-03 00:48 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  Dude...your Vulcan speak is freaking me out man... ;)
  
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2. Re:wow by antic · 2004-09-03 02:00 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  "We could take Tribes 2 or Quake, or the like and build entire simulated armies. Instead of actually killing people we could simulate wars and just abide by the results."
  
  Great idea, but only if Diebold gets to orchestrate the simulation...
  
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3. Re:wow by Not_Wiggins · 2004-09-03 02:15 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  Welcome to "Skynet." 8)
  
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Station wagon full of backup tapes by RollingThunder · 2004-09-03 00:11 · Score: 5, Funny

I think we've well surpassed what a station wagon full of backup tapes can do now....
1. Re:Station wagon full of backup tapes by real_smiff · 2004-09-03 00:26 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  supertankers are very slow. they have very bad latency. and do these DVDs have cases? :p
  
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2. Re:Station wagon full of backup tapes by Alt_Cognito · 2004-09-03 01:08 · Score: 0, Funny
  
  This was modded funny because everybody knows we use trains for high speed data mass transit.
3. Re:Station wagon full of backup tapes by Teun · 2004-09-03 01:42 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  Won't work, CERN is European DVD region 2, Caltech is North American DVD region 1.
  You can tipically only change this code 5 times before it locks up.
  At least that's what the *IAA's would like us to believe :)
  
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4. Re:Station wagon full of backup tapes by ivow · 2004-09-03 01:56 · Score: 2, Funny
  
  What about filling up the wagon with fiber channel SAN's?
  
  btw: I think we're forgetting that fold out seat in the back of the station wagon.
DVD speed by Gunzour · 2004-09-03 00:12 · Score: 4, Funny

'This record speed of 6.63Gbps is equivalent to transferring a full-length DVD movie in four seconds.'

Yeah, that's the message we want to convey to the MPAA. Everyone knows the Internet2 is all about pirating DVDs.
1. Re:DVD speed by hasdikarlsam · 2004-09-03 00:14 · Score: 2, Funny
  
  Who cares what it's good for?
  
  I want one!
2. Re:DVD speed by jkrise · 2004-09-03 00:17 · Score: 3, Funny
  
  Think how much faster we can get our Service packs from Microsoft! Download in less than a second - but rebooting would take ages..... groan ;-(
  
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3. Re:DVD speed by Mad+Leper · 2004-09-03 00:30 · Score: 2, Funny
  
  Even better, the fact that this is not the first article to refer to network speeds as "DVDs per second/minute/hour" It must piss off the MPAA and RIAA when the media uses DVD/MP3 as a benchmark for network performance.
4. Re:DVD speed by hype7 · 2004-09-03 00:36 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  Yeah, that's the message we want to convey to the MPAA. Everyone knows the Internet2 is all about pirating DVDs.
  
  Someone give Jack Valenti a call! His exit interview was linked off here just a few days ago, and he said:
  If everything stayed just as it is right now, we could probably survive it, because even with broadband it takes at least an hour to bring down a movie. But I visited the labs at Caltech, and they're running an experiment called FAST where they can bring down a DVD-quality movie in 5 seconds. The director told me it could be operative in the market in 18 months. Well, my face blanched.
  
  I wanna know what his face does when he finds out we can now do it in under 5 seconds :D It sure couldn't get any uglier than it already is.
  
  Anyway, don't let him quit before someone tells him!
  
  -- james
5. Re:DVD speed by Anonymous Coward · 2004-09-03 01:00 · Score: 0, Funny
  
  5 seconds!??! Aawwww, I wanted it NOW!
6. Re:DVD speed by darc · 2004-09-03 01:10 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  >'This record speed of 6.63Gbps is equivalent to transferring a full-length DVD movie in four seconds.'
  
  Sheesh. Whatever happened to the last benchmark unit? Libraries of Congresses? All you kids and your new fangled metric system... DVD units. Back in my day, we were sued by BOOK publishers! Not some crazy eight track industry. Those were some REAL copyrights.
  
  *prattles*
  
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7. Re:DVD speed by Anonymous Coward · 2004-09-03 01:12 · Score: 1, Funny
  
  "This record speed of 6.63Gbps is equivalent to transferring a full-length DVD movie in four seconds."
  
  Upon hearing this The MPAA and CEO's of all major movie studios took a collective shit in their pants.
B.T. by Anonymous Coward · 2004-09-03 00:12 · Score: 1, Funny

Sounds like the perfect BT seed to me.
In tomorrow's news ... by sawb · 2004-09-03 00:13 · Score: 5, Funny

.... the RIAA and MPAA sue Internet2 as being a potential source for copyright violations by being able to steal a movie in 4 seconds or an album in 0.0003 seconds.

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1. Re:In tomorrow's news ... by jkrise · 2004-09-03 00:34 · Score: 2, Funny
  
  and users of internet2 would be sued for possessing the equivalent of 6.83 billion CD writers!
  
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Evil plan by Libor+Vanek · 2004-09-03 00:14 · Score: 2, Funny

1, Manage to transfer your data at 6.63Gbps
2, ???
3, Profit!
Just goes to show by Anonymous Coward · 2004-09-03 00:19 · Score: 1, Funny

that there is nothing people cannot achieve given enough porn to motivate them. Way to go, I am behind you all the way. I didn't mean it like that so stop that gay fantasy right now!
joke, best I could do on the spur of the moment.. by sgtron · 2004-09-03 00:19 · Score: 5, Funny

RMS walks into a bar. Bartender says "Hey, we don't allow hackers in here."

RMS Says "Huh.. that's GNU'S to me."

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Re:Oh-oh. by gowen · 2004-09-03 00:24 · Score: 1, Funny

Here's a hilarious one :
"Today I am one of the senior technical cadre that makes the Internet work, and a core Linux and open-source developer."

---Eric S. Raymond
Needless to say, it's typical self aggrandisement

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Err - cancel that by defsdoor · 2004-09-03 00:26 · Score: 5, Funny

Just realised the file was in our proxy cache!!
Re:Windows.. by Errtu76 · 2004-09-03 00:27 · Score: 1, Funny

because nobody pirates stuff in linux :P
Conversion? by keiferb · 2004-09-03 00:34 · Score: 1, Funny

Sure... but what is that in terms of pps (porn per second)?
Hmmm... by TwoStepsBehind · 2004-09-03 00:43 · Score: 0, Funny

So let's use the commonly presumed capacity of the brain: 10 ^ 15 bits.... Now children, "How long would it take to download a brain that is full?" Class responds: At 6.63Gbps, it would take 150,829.6 seconds, or about 1.74 days, or about 41.89 hours! Good job class. So it would take 41.89 hours to download the brain. Class, "Now how long would it take to download the brain of our current president?" Class responds: We'll let you know when we've located his brain! :)
CalTech and CERN had nothing to do with this by Jakhel · 2004-09-03 00:52 · Score: 0, Funny

It was all a display of the power of the Internet Wwwyzzerdd!! For just 19.95 per month you too can be subject to live, STREAMING BROADBAND!! That's just pennies a day, and at that price you'd be crazy not to sign up!!

That's WWW, Y, 2 Z's, E, R, 2 D's..Hang on, rebuffering..
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dot com
Wheelchair by Himring · 2004-09-03 00:54 · Score: 5, Funny

Itanium servers and the 64-bit version of Windows Server 2003

This reminds me of another article this week where a guy strapped jet engines to a wheel chair....

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Use *NIX and it would be by HermanAB · 2004-09-03 01:32 · Score: 2, Funny

about 8 minutes.
I guess they wanted to leave themselves some room for improvement and therefore started off with Win2003...

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Re:What about LOC/s? by maxwell+demon · 2004-09-03 02:03 · Score: 2, Funny

Sorry, but Google apparently doesn't know the unit Libraries of Congress per second.

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I can beat that! by Mateito · 2004-09-03 02:48 · Score: 4, Funny

Look, here I have a 80GB HD full of... um.. arthouse movies. I pick it up, move it a meter. Takes around half a second. Thus I am moving effectively moving data at 1280Gb/sec.

Beats their record.

Oh? It needs to go over wire. Fine.

Be amazed at my 80GB Harddrive over Cat 5 FLYING FOX!!

Bwahahaha.

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Internet2 Speed Cop Pulls Them Over by red+floyd · 2004-09-03 03:22 · Score: 2, Funny

Ok boys. Did y'know that y'all were doin 6.63Gbps in a 5.5Gbps zone?

I'm afraid I'm goin' t'have t'write y'all up for speedin'.

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