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Data Sorting World Record — 1 Terabyte, 1 Minute

Posted by kdawson on from the out-of-sorts dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Computer scientists from the University of California, San Diego have broken the 'terabyte barrier' — and a world record — when they sorted more than a trillion bytes of data in 60 seconds. During this 2010 'Sort Benchmark' competition, a sort of 'World Cup of data sorting,' the UCSD team also tied a world record for fastest data sorting rate, sifting through one trillion data records in 172 minutes — and did so using just a quarter of the computing resources of the other record holder."

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  1. Doesn't sound so hard... by Minwee · · Score: 5, Funny

    As long as you use Intelligent Design Sort.

  2. Amendments to the Geek Heirarchy by Lord_of_the_nerf · · Score: 5, Funny

    LARPers > Fan-fiction writers > Professional Data Sorting Competitors > Furries

  3. Re:What makes it a barrier? by maxwell+demon · · Score: 5, Funny

    Impressive and all, but I take umbrage at calling it a "1 TB barrier". Is it disproportionately more difficult than sorting 0.99 TB?

    At 1TB the attraction of the 1-bits gets so large that if you are not careful, your data collapses into a black hole.

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    The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.