Purdue Streams a Movie At 7.5Gb/sec

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.

Comments

Re:Help me out: using 75% of a 10Gb/s link "rocks"

[cheater512]

Actually it is that high. The faster you get, the higher the overhead percentage.
If the size of the packets scaled with the bandwidth then the overhead percentage would remain constant.

10gbps is around 150,000 packets (9k jumbo packets) per second. 100mbps is 1,500 packets per second (also using jumbo packets).
As you can see the overhead increases with the bandwidth.

I despise linked videos in wmv format

[daniel23]

I've seen this quite a lot recently here, linking videos from the front page and they are in .wmv format. My fireFox doesnt show them, it offers to load a plugin, but fails to do so. I can go "manual" and it guides me to microsoft.com where I can some DRM-infested POS which doesnt like my OS etcetc.

Please, this is /. and not yahoo or msn, right? can we somehow convince our editors to stop standardising on microsoft orthodx video formats? thankx