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


    :-p

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

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

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