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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. Sooo... by TubeSteak · · Score: 2, Interesting

    2 minutes long & 125-GB
    "A resolution of 4096x3072, with 24-bit color, running at 30 frames per second,"

    What codec did they use?

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  2. Not impressive by MetricT · · Score: 2, Interesting

    That's not that impressive in the scheme of things (ie Supercomputing 2006). We (Vanderbilt) were there, and we were streaming 35 Gb/sec for hours on end over a parallel filesystem we're developing. And even we weren't the fastest there. Going to Supercomputing is like stepping 3-4 years into the future.

  3. Use for the bandwidth by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I have a friend who just got back from the same conference. He works at Ohio State University in the electron optics facility (read: likes to play with awesome equipment). Here's what he sent along to me: "This week I am in Tampa, Fl at the Supercomputing Conference "SC 06" with the guys from OSC (Ohio SuperComputer group). We have connected the Global Link boxes up and I am attempting to run the Quanta from Florida. Traffic is being routed from the conference to Atlanta, the Internet2, then though to the Third Frontier Network and back to OSU." With the bandwidth he had, he was able to observe, interact, and analyze a sample in a scanning electron microscope (the Quanta) in Ohio, in real time. Now that's a use for bandwidth; it's a lot cheaper to have a great internet connection than to buy the latest electron microscopes.