Fastest Network - 101.3 Gb/s

QCH

I just grabbed this from a news link for our Facilities Daily News...

Fermilab Today

The high energy physics groups (Fermilab and SLAC ) won the Fifth Annual HPC Bandwidth Challenge by transferring data into and out of the convention site at a rate of <b>101.3 Gigabit per second</b>, roughly equivalent to transferring the contents of three DVD's in just one second. The result demonstrates that networking capabilities will be up to the task of crunching through the unprecedented amounts of data from the LHC, said CD/CCF head Don Petravick. "It sets a vision and a scale for what can be done," he said. Fermilab was able to join SLAC, CERN, Caltech and other high-energy physics research institutions in the challenge this year, thanks to a recently-deployed high-bandwidth optical fiber connection that links the lab to the StarLight optical network exchange in Chicago.

101.3 Gigabits per second.... WOW. Funny thing is, I helped one of the developers unpackaged and test the precursor network (Starband and Infinaband)

KingFish

Wow, nice numbers!

QCH

UPDATE...

High Energy Physics Team Captures Network Prize at SC|05

(Super Computing 2005)...

Fermilab and Stanford worked together to reach another milestone... over 150 gigabits per second (130 DVDs in one second).

Read More HERE

primesuspect

Wow... I think I read somewhere that there's still a long ways to go though... The CMS (Compact Muon Solenoid) portion of the LHC is projected to produce several TERABYTES of data per second... and they still need to figure out a way to get that data out of there....

QCH

Well... one of the options is to uses thousands of shorter connections to huge PC farms to do basic data filtering then transfer the condensed data downstream.