Internet Speed Record Quadrupled To 101 Gbit/s

edited December 2004 in Science & Tech
An international team of physicists, scientists and engineers achieved a new speed record for long distance data transfer: During the Supercomputing Bandwidth Challenge the sustained data transfer was 101 Gbit per second (Gbp/s) between Pittsburgh and Los Angeles. This is more than four times faster than last year's record of 23 Gbp/s.
The group's "High-Speed TeraByte Transfers for Physics" record data transfer speed is equivalent to downloading three full DVD movies per second, or transmitting all of the content of the Library of Congress in 15 minutes, and it corresponds to approximately percent of the rate that all forms of digital content were produced on Earth during the test, the team led by the California Institute of Technology said.

The extraordinary achieved bandwidth was made possible in part through the use of the Fast TCP protocol developed by Professor Steven Low and his Caltech Netlab team. It was achieved through the use of seven 10 Gbp/s links to Cisco 7600 and 6500 series switch-routers provided by Cisco Systems at the Caltech Center for Advanced Computing booth, and three 10 Gbp/s links to the SLAC/Fermilab booth near Chicago.
Source: Tom's Hardware Guide

Comments

  • primesuspectprimesuspect Beepin n' Boopin Detroit, MI Icrontian
    edited November 2004
    You KNOW those guys send movies and pr0n back and forth to each other ;D
  • EMTEMT Seattle, WA Icrontian
    edited November 2004
    Wow... Gigabit networking throughput makes a typical hard drive look slow, but this puts a modern memory bus to shame - amazing! (I wonder what kind of memory they used?)
  • mmonninmmonnin Centreville, VA
    edited November 2004
    They would have to use several computers to push out that much data.
  • QCHQCH Ancient Guru Chicago Area - USA Icrontian
    edited December 2004
    WOW... but I already stake claim on this piece of news... Two weeks ago... didn't get much notice back then though. Glad to see that it finally reached Tom's Hardware.

    As for the P0RN.... We cannot condone such use of extreme width for such a purpose..... Besides, in the matter of a few minutes, we'd have too much info to ever have enough time to "review".
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