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Internet2 Speed Record Broken

Posted by ryuzaki0 on 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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  1. wow by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    how much bandwidth does doom3 need for network gaming?

    1. Re:wow by AviLazar · · Score: 5, Funny

      Dude...your Vulcan speak is freaking me out man... ;)

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    2. Re:wow by Not_Wiggins · · Score: 5, Funny


      Welcome to "Skynet." 8)

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  2. Station wagon full of backup tapes by RollingThunder · · 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 Teun · · 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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  3. In tomorrow's news ... by sawb · · 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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  4. joke, best I could do on the spur of the moment.. by sgtron · · 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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  5. Err - cancel that by defsdoor · · Score: 5, Funny

    Just realised the file was in our proxy cache!!

  6. Wheelchair by Himring · · 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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  7. Re:DVD speed by darc · · 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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