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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. one LoC/15 minutes by SpaceLifeForm · · Score: 5, Funny

    One Line of Code every 15 minutes? Seems slow to me.

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

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

  3. Writing speeds by Norgus · · Score: 5, Funny

    >. if only my HDD would write that fast!

  4. Doesn't make sense by oexeo · · Score: 5, Insightful
    new TCP protocols were used

    TCP is a specific protocol, a "new" TCP protocol would suggest a different protocol, unless it means a revision of the current protocol.

    1. 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.

    2. Re:Doesn't make sense by Mondrames · · Score: 5, Interesting

      My friend calls this an "Extronym" - when you append the word for wich the last initial stands to the acronym. For example - ATM Machine or PIN Number. She's be using it for a couple of years now.

  5. Re:Too Fast for its Own Good by RAMMS+EIN · · Score: 5, Insightful

    ``Isn't there a point when we've reached a speed where rather than deciding what to send from one place to another, we become lazy and start sending everything?''

    You mean like broadcasting radio and TV?

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  6. Best read this way.... by Himring · · Score: 5, Funny

    Best read using Christopher Lloyd's voice from Back to The Future, e.g.:

    "101 jigowatts per second!!!" --Professor Emmett Brown

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  7. Re:Too Fast for its Own Good by oexeo · · Score: 5, Insightful

    > Has anyone every stopped to think this might be too fast for its own good?

    Has the infamous Bill Gates quote not taught you anything?

  8. Re:My Car Gets Forty Rod to the Hogsgead by SlayerofGods · · Score: 5, Funny
    I mean that's a full terabyte almost every minute and a half. What has so much data?
    The library of congress perhaps?
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  9. Possible uses? by yetanothermike · · Score: 5, Insightful
    Instead of looking at the possibility of beefing up your catalog of Futurama episodes, think about the new uses for it.

    Medical imaging produces very large files, and the need to transfer them over distances quickly to save lives is real.

    The possibility for video is great as well. Imagine getting multiple feeds of the next WTO event from different sources on the ground. Or quality alternative broadcasting that isn't just some postage-stamp-sized, pixelated blobs. Torrents are nice, but there is something to be said for being jacked in live.

    And for those who didn't RTFA, it's 3 DVDs a second.

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  10. Asking question when not required... by zijus · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I read a lot of : is this needed?, let's be clever and ask oneself what we are doing...

    Frankly, it is hilarious from folks who probably jumped on GMail, IPods, stupid phone which does all but work when needed, and other devices which are arguably the most un-needed space on the planet. (No you won't get me to believe your 200MB emails are worth keeping...)

    Ciao

    As a reminder, the ALICE experiment at CERN will produce per year 1 PB ( Peta Byte ) of _raw_ data. This is only _one_ experiment out of _four_. Add DB overhead and you start getting the picture. And no: there won't be backups: too big. The nature of particle physics is to be statistics. The search is for slight deviations from what is predicted. So the amount of raw data is huge. It is also that the amount of (raw) data per second produced will be in some case magnitude of order bigger.

    It is thought that some data will not be stored at all at CERN, but sent straight to remote storage farm. Too much data to be stored localy.

    The people analysing those data will be scattered over the planet, involving indeed the need of big transfers.

    Ha ha ha: is this needed ? Hi hi let's think about it... Please dump all the crap data you pretend to need and ask again the question.