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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. Does this mean by kc0re · · Score: 0, Redundant

    First of all, that's alot of Mp3's I can "legally" download. Second of all, I can't wait until that "Gigabit-to-the-desktop" comes to the home, My UT2K4 and Doom3 ping rates will be great.

  2. OMG!! by LabRat007 · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Think of the PORN!!!!

    --
    "Capital punishment makes the state into a murderer. Imprisonment makes the state into a gay dungeon-master"
  3. RIAA alert! by kger · · Score: 0, Redundant
    "This record speed of 6.63Gbps is equivalent to transferring a full-length DVD movie in four seconds."
    Looks like Jack Valenti retired a little too soon.
  4. Congratulations by Sanity · · Score: 0, Redundant
    'This record speed of 6.63Gbps is equivalent to transferring a full-length DVD movie in four seconds.'
    Yay - now the MPAA gets to sue Internet 2 for inducement to infringe copyright just as soon as the Induce Act gets passed!
  5. I know the porn jokes are old but.... by Frogbert · · Score: 0, Redundant

    You know, I'd honestly think it would be the coolest thing ever if they actually made their data up entirely of porn. It would be hilarious.

  6. How much? by jimicus · · Score: 0, Redundant

    'transferred 859 gigabytes of data in less than 17 minutes.'

    That's a helluva lot of pr0n. I think there is a need for a definition of speed in terms of "number of horny people who can be satisfied per second".

    Assuming a couple of hundred KB for a high-res JPEG, or about 30MB for a short film, 6.3Gbps would be equivalent to about 20 films or 3150 images per second.

    With it's a 75/25 split between movies and still images, that's 15 films and 750 images.

    Or 765 orgasms per second.