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Another Internet2 Speed Record Broken

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the busting-outta-school dept.

rdwald writes "An international team of scientists led by Caltech have set a new Internet2 speed record of 101 gigabits per second. They even helpfully converted this into one LoC/15 minutes. Lots of technical details in this press release; in addition to the obviously better network infrastructure, new TCP protocols were used."

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  1. Gigabits... by wittj · · Score: 5, Informative

    The speed is 101 Gigabits per second (Gbps), not Gigabytes.

  2. Re:Doesn't make sense by PhrostyMcByte · · Score: 5, Informative

    They are talking about "Fast" TCP, which AFAIK just consists of a better routing algorithm and using multiple TCP streams at once.

  3. Re:My Car Gets Forty Rod to the Hogsgead by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Informative

    Here's a link http://computing.fnal.gov/news/chictribune090203.h tml

    CERN Conseil Europeen pour le Recherche Nucleaire (European Laboratory for Particle Physics)

    Important Point:
    When CERN comes online in about 5 years, it's expected to churn out petabytes of data. Yeah. I meant that. Petabytes, as in 1024 terabytes. Fermilab is already turning out terabytes but it will be surpassed greatly by CERN.

    A particle accelerator is basically taking very high resolution images in 3 dimensions hundreds of times a second. It's pretty easy to see how so much data is accumulated.