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Internet2 Speed Record Broken
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.'"
here are some other records (taken from here:
Current Records
IPv6 Category
Single Stream Class: 46,156 terabit-meters per second by a team consisting of members from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) and CERN across 10,949 kilometers of network.
Multiple Stream Class: 46,156 terabit-meters per second by a team consisting of members from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) and CERN across 10,949 kilometers of network.
IPv4 Category
Single Stream Class: 69,073 terabit-meters per second by a team consisting of members from the SUNET, the organization for the national higher research and education network (NREN) of Sweden, and Sprint across 16,343 kilometers of network.
Multiple Stream Class: 104,528 terabit-meters per second by a team consisting of members from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) and CERN by sending 859 gigabytes of data across 15,766 kilometers of network in 1037 seconds (just over 17 minutes), for an average rate of 6.63 gigabits per second.
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This makes even the Japanese and Korean connections http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/09/02/132221 5&tid=95/ look pitifully slow.
Just what we need the ability to watch 30 high def soaps at once...
Yes, but that can be massively parallelized. The total time taken need only be the time to burn & read 1 DVD.
The last record a few months ago was set on NetBSD. It's a game of leapfrog.
Maybe this will help
PCWorld
Looks like they were using next-generation Internet Protocol version 6 protocols, but I am not sure if that encapsulates some next generation of TCP/IP as well
The phaomnneil pweor of the hmuan mnid. Fcuknig amzanig eh!
Hum... Not really "back-up" though. The kind of data which are gonna be produced at CERN in LHC won't be backed up : just too big.
The point of those super fast transfer rates is that probably experiment data will _not_ be stored at CERN at all, just produced and sent straight to storage farmes. Hopefully organisation will be clean enough to avoid more transfere after first storage. The goal beeing : stored where it's gonna be analysed.
I worked a while within the ALICE experiment off-line software section at CERN in 1999-2000. The proportion of problemes are just mind blowing. Some experiment generates so much data at each run that a single extra bit used to store a raw data, immediatly translates into 10th of extra disks required. One run is at max a few seconds. As fare as I remember, ALICE ( A Large Ion Colider Experiment) will generate on it's own 1PB a year. The why of it is: as opposed to colide e-/e+, this experiment will colide nucleus. We could see it as: colide two car side mirors and you get X by-products. But now, colide not the miror only but the whole cars: you get magnitude of order more by-products to observe. The goal , as fare as I rember is to observe some Quark-Gluon-Plasma (QGP), a gas of quark and gluon. It's the fifth state of mater we know about.
Some lads in slashdot thread mentionne p0rn... But just a single peta byte is equivalent of what has been said and written ever by humanity. We'd have to generate a lot of pOrn/mp3s/... to have that much data. Or maybe set up ALIPE ( A Large Intricate P0rn Experiment.)...
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RAM... lots and lots and LOTS of RAM.
"A tax of $0.01/MB will be levied on all network transmissions except those originating directly from our licensed content distributors."
Of course, if the country has any sort of constitution guaranteeing freedom of speech, copyright law will allow any copyright owner to join the royalty pool. This is already the case with sound recordings and blank Music CD-R media.
This type of speed is for shared backbones - improving qos for tens of thousands of users at a time. You're not going to get these speeds between two endpoints.
3dfx had some commercials a few years ago that had a documentary-style voice talking about how advances in technology could help create a better tomorrow, more efficient farming that would feed the world, and so on, and then some guy says "hey, or we could use it for games!", and then they introduce the voodoo-whatever-number-it-was-at-the-time.
10 PRINT CHR$(205.5+RND(1)); : GOTO 10
Sure it's fast, but it's not that great. SuperJANET 4 is running on a 10Gbps backbone with plans to increase it to 20Gbps in the near future.
:)
There's nothing quite like having a 2.5Gbps net connection coming straight into your department at uni