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Purdue Streams a Movie At 7.5Gb/sec

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the fat-pipe dept.

the_psilo writes, "My friend just got back from the Supercomputing conference in Tampa, FL where she and the rest of the Purdue Envision Center rocked the High Performance Computing Bandwidth Challenge by streaming a 2-minute-long, 125-GB movie over a 10-Gb link at 7.5 Gb/sec. They used 6 Apple Xserve RAIDs connected to 12 clients projecting onto their tiled wall (that's 12 streams in all). Lots of accolades from the people who set up the challenge. More links to articles and reviews can be found at the Envision Center Bandwidth Challenge FAQ page." The two-minute video is a scientific visualization of a cell structure from a bacterium. The Envision Center site hosts a reduced version of the video.

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  1. Just goes to prove.. by Beached · · Score: 3, Funny

    This just proves that porn really is the driving factor in Internet growth. Cells are the basic building blocks of people and people are what make (most) porn, porn.

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  2. Re:Useful? by CommunistHamster · · Score: 3, Funny

    Cue porn jokes.

  3. Hmmm, looks a bit blocky to me by caluml · · Score: 3, Funny

    Hmmm, looks a bit blocky to me. I think they need more key-frames, and less compression.

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  4. Re:Useful? by Sqwubbsy · · Score: 2, Funny

    We all hope that this marvel of IT world will be used for things better than video streaming!
     
    What is more important than video streaming? Oh wait, gaming.
    Sorry.

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  5. Reduced version? by smooth+wombat · · Score: 4, Funny

    We don't need no stinkin reduced version!

    I'm sure our employers wouldn't mind if we took a look at the full version.

    *psst* *psst* *psst* *mumble* *mumble* *mumble*

    The whole thing? Really?

    My boss has told me to take the full version of my personal desk stuff home now.

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  6. Hmmmm by truthsearch · · Score: 3, Funny

    A 2-minute-long, 125-GB movie... that must have been one super-high resolution chicken.

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  7. Two minutes??? by Big_Monkey_Bird · · Score: 2, Funny

    Two minutes??? But I want it noooooow!

  8. And... by jo42 · · Score: 4, Funny
    ...underneath the table, behind the curtain where 12 BETAMAX machines hooked directly into the screens...


    :-p

  9. Re:Useful? by Amouth · · Score: 2, Funny

    what that much bandwith I hope there isn't a queue

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  10. But then.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    ..what happens to your own personal Internet?

  11. Re:Does this add up? by outsider007 · · Score: 3, Funny

    Maybe I just don't understand something stupid.
    You see, the internet is a series of tubes...

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  12. Nuh-uh. by Kadin2048 · · Score: 3, Funny

    No way. Everyone knows Porn >> Games in the scheme of cosmic importance!

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  13. "Reduced" video by Centurix · · Score: 2, Funny

    "The Envision Center site hosts a reduced version of the video."

    Come on, this is slashdot, at least link to the full thing...

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  14. Xserve has 1 gbit ethernet by Fefe · · Score: 2, Funny

    How could they possibly reach 7.5 gbit with 6 Xserves, if each Xserve only has a 1 gbit ethernet connection?

    This looks to me like some desperate attempt to justify the money they wasted on bad (Apple!) hardware, drugs and hookers :-)