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Bandwidth Challenge Results

Posted by samzenpus on from the greased-lightning dept.

the 1st sandman writes "SC2005 published some results of several challenges including bandwidth utilization. The winner (a Caltech led team of several institutes) was measured at 130 Gbps. On their site you can find some more information on their measurements and the equipment they used. They claimed they had a throughput of several DVD movies per second. How is that for video on demand!"

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  1. Re:LOC'ed in. by phatslug · · Score: 4, Informative

    130 Gbps = 0.0158691406 terabytes per second (using google)
    1 Library of congress is 20TB
    1 Fortnight is 1209600s
    0.0158691406 x 1209600 = 19195.31247
    At 130Gbps after 1 fortnight 19195.31247TB would be transfered
    19195.31247/20 = 959.77 Libraries of Congress per fortnight.

  2. What does each component do? by FunFactor100 · · Score: 2, Informative

    It would be nice to know what each group of hardware is doing in this setup. What purpose do all the different servers have on the system? Also, there is a lot of storage on this setup, however it's spread all over the place. They have 4x300GB hard drives in each of the 30 Dual Opterons, one 36.4GB hard drive in each of the 40 HP servers, 24 hard drives on the Sun server, more hard drives on the IBMS, and even more on the Nexsan SATABeast. Any idea what each cluster of servers does?