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

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

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    3. 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. not bad... by Slashbot+Hive-Mind · · Score: 5, Informative

    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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  4. 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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  5. 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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  6. 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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  7. 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..

  8. Err - cancel that by defsdoor · · Score: 5, Funny

    Just realised the file was in our proxy cache!!

  9. 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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  10. 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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