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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. Distance is as impressive as speed by erick99 · · Score: 5, Insightful
    The distance of approximately 9,800 miles is as impressive as the speed. The article did not mention how many devices (i.e. switches, gateways, etc.) that the data passed through from site to site.

    Cheers,

    Erick

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  2. Re:Windows.. by dk.r*nger · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Why don't they do this test with an OS like *BSD (or Linux), with its highly-tuned networking stack?

    Because Microsoft has a marketing budget and Caltech/CERN don't give a rats ass what software it runs when it's the network infrastructure they're showing off..

  3. Re:wow by Lt+Cmdr+Tuvok · · Score: 5, Insightful
    how much bandwidth does doom3 need for network gaming?

    It is typical of humans to focus primarily on the ways in which new technology can be utilized for 'fun'. Computer games are a particularily ubiquitous example of this phenomenon. Massively networked computers have the potential to become the greatest compound computational device that mankind has ever had access to. If only the proper effort were expended, multiple paralell processing tasks could quite easily be run on this supernetwork. The combined power of this cluster would thus be beneficial to all.

    There is slim hope that this will happen, at least in the foreseeable future, human logic being as flawed as it indeed is.

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