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First 500 Terabytes Transmitted via LHCGlobal Grid
neutron_p writes "When the LHC Computer Grid starts operating in 2007, it will be the most data-intensive physics instrument on the planet. Today eight major computing centers successfully completed a challenge to sustain a continuous data flow of 600 megabytes per second on average for 10 days from CERN in Geneva, Switzerland to seven sites in Europe and the US. The total amount of data transmitted during this challenge -- 500 terabytes -- would take about 250 years to download using a typical 512 kilobit per second household broadband connection."
...this network be able to handle Longhorn SP1?
Can it handle a slashdotting?
//insert perfunctory comment about library of congress here
On a side note, I tried to find out what the real data size of the LOC is, but I could not.
If you blog it...
...a box full of DLT, LTO, or AIT tapes. With FedEx at my side, I can have several hundred terabytes sent almost anywhere on the planet in 24 hours.
Of course, the latency for this gargantuan data pipeline is a bit on the high side...
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Thats great and all but none of us will be on anything like that for years. If Time Warner had that here they would charge one child a month. You would need 12 wives just to cover your internet bill.
The perfect solution to connect my beowulf clusters!
Ive been looking all over for it.
spelling is for people who doens't know better...
Only 10 days? I guess the RIAA sent cease and desist letters.
"640K ought to be enough for anybody." --Bill Gates, 1981
/., 2005
"640MB/sec ought to be enough for anybody." --Me,
Wer mit Ungeheuern kämpft, mag zusehn, dass er nicht dabei zum Ungeheuer wird. --Nietzsche
500 terabytes -- would take about 250 years to download using a typical 512 kilobit per second household broadband connection
Well, I've got a 3 megabit connection! It'd only take...uh...well, 42 years or so...but I'd upgrade to that 1 gigabit connection they have in Asia before it finished...
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What was not revealed in the article, was that the majority of the data was composed of pictures of Goatse and TubGirl in ultra-high resolution..
What is with these non-standard terms like "Terabytes" and "Megabytes"? Please re-state the bandwidth and the amount of data tranferred in LoCs (Libraries of Congress) and KLoCs (Kilo Libraries of Congress) so that the rest of the world can understand the magnitude of this achievement.
...the cult of Einstein still prevails so all the information will be discarded as inconvenient to their theories. When they get tired of being contradicted by experimental results, they'll download porn and after finally getting some, lose interest in pocket protectors and science freeing up the accellarators for serious usage by junior geeks including impressing girls with "look at the size of my collider" lines, heavy-duty nanowelding, investigating useful things like warp travel, and of course Ghostbusting.
Or not in which case we've got a nifty new thing in the toolbox for science on planet Earth.
Could go either way.
If my grammar and spelling are off, I am [distracted/tired/careless] (take your pick)
On a related note, CERN is now being sued by the MPAA & RIAA. A spokesmen was commented, saying, "Obviously with 500 terabytes of data being transmitted on the internet, at least some of it had to be copyrighted materials represented by the RIAA and the MPAA. As we know, the internet and communication grids serve no real purpose other then to pirate movies and music."
The lawsuit is expected to destroy CERN and any sort of decent networking research anybody was even thinking about doing for the next 50 year.
Keep in mind that was 500 TB in a *metric week* -- 10 days. Those crazy physicists!
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Time required by my home internet connection, 3mbps, to transfer this data: 41.6666666... years. Rounded to one sig fig, since 500TB is: 42 years. It really IS the answer to life, the universe, and everything.
I am scientifically inaccurate.
Now we don't have to wait around for our porn!
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Seth Lord and RIAA Chief Mitch Bainwol, felt a sudden disturbance in the force. It was a like a thousand music producers and label execs suddenly cried out in grief and dispair.
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It would only take 247.73274987316083206494165398275 years. I wish these articles would check their facts. 247.73274987316083206494165398275 I could live with. I think at 250 I'd start to get impatient...
You have 600,000,000 hard drives in a striped RAID array. Then you only have to store 1 byte per second.
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but can even move faster than light on a bicycle?
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