Transatlantic Gigabit Gaming.. err, Research

YourHero writes: "Science Technology And Research Light-Illuminated Gigabit High-Performance Transit. All hail acronyms. U Illinois at Chicago has hooked up to SURFnet (Netherlands) at 2.5Gbps, with plans to go to 10Gbps and hook up Canada, Asia and other parts of Europe. StarLight as its called makes a monster gaming ... err. I mean 'real-time, multi-site virtual reality.' Looks like they've been racking up killer ping times for a few weeks now.

STARLIGHPT.

[Happy Monkey]

I'm guessing they'd rather not have the 'P' in performance be bolded.

Check your bold tags

[ekrout]

STARLIGHPT (pronounced "starlipped"?) just doesn't have a nice ring to it...

;-)

Slashdot

[fliplap]

All that and they still can't survive the slashdot effect?

Canada, Asia and other parts of Europe

[Mark4ST]

...plans to go to 10Gbps and hook up Canada, Asia and other parts of Europe

Since when did Canada and Asia become "parts of Europe"? I'm always the last to know this stuff. *sigh*

You too can play in the freeway!

[imrdkl]

They're taking proposals testbed projects. See the iGRID project page under the startap URL.
From the iGRID page:

How would you use a 2.5Gb (10Gb? 40Gb?) global testbed? How will you change your application codes? How will you expand the complexity of the problem you are solving? How will you take advantage of the fact that the networks are now faster than the computers driving them?

A slashdotting should show them if it works.

Wonderful Acronym

[Evro]

"Science Technology And Research Light-Illuminated Gigabit High-Performance Transit."

Yes, I truly love the brand new "STARLIGHPT" . Nothing rolls off the tongue quite like the word Starlighpt. Yessir!

:-D