Scientists Set New Internet2 Speed Record

KingFishKingFish
edited September 2004 in Science & Tech
Scientists at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) and the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) set a new land-speed record for Internet2, a second-generation network serving universities and research institutes.
The team, which included folks from AMD, Cisco, Microsoft Research, Newisys, and S2io, transferred 859 gigabytes of data in less than 17 minutes. It did so at a rate of 6.63 gigabits per second between the CERN facility in Geneva, Switzerland, and Caltech in Pasadena, Calif., a distance of more than 15,766 kilometers, or approximately 9,800 miles. Scientists are racing to move gigantic amounts of data by 2007, when CERN's Large Hadron Collider (LHC) will switch on. This huge underground particle accelerator will produce some 15 petabytes of data a year, which will be stored and analyzed on a global grid of computer centers.
That would be a nice connect for a gaming server. -KF

Source: Internet News

Comments

  • MedlockMedlock Miramar, Florida Member
    edited September 2004
    Wow can a hard drive even keep up with that speed? Kickass!
  • TheBaronTheBaron Austin, TX
    edited September 2004
    TheGr81 wrote:
    Wow can a hard drive even keep up with that speed? Kickass!

    im assuming they were spanning the data over a huge drive array
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