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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. Important Details.... by pdxp · · Score: 5, Interesting
    ... to make it clear that you won't be doing it (TritonSort, thanks for leaving that out kdawson) on your desktop at home:
    • 10Gbps Networking
    • 52 servers x 8 cores each = 416 CPUs
    • 24 GB RAM per server = 1,248 GB
    • ext4 filesystem on each, presumably with hardware raid

    I think this is cool, but.... how fast is it in a more practical situation?

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