Ethernet at 10 Gbps

An anonymous reader writes "This article talks about 10 Gigabit Ethernet and asks, 'But just how much data can a person consume?' Currently at work, we're working on a major project to re-architect our core application platform so that the different systems can be de-coupled and hosted separately. The legacy design implicitly relies on systems being in the same LAN due to bandwidth-expensive operations (e.g., database replication). Having this much bandwidth would change the way we design. What would you do with this much bandwidth?"

Hmm...

[ravenspear]

What would you do with this much bandwidth?"

Check out more unusual positions.

Hey, why not?

[AJYeary]

Build an entire slashdot-proof network!

silly question

[00zero]

10 Gb is rediculous. 640K should be enough for anyone.

good political satire [the-torch.com]

Reminds me of an old quote...

[Anonymous Coward]

Just get us the bandwidth - we'll manage to piss it all away. Easy!

1G should be enough for anyone.
-- Nicholas Cravotta, 2004

640K should be enough for anyone.
-- Bill Gates, 1981

Re:silly question

[hunterx11]

In the future, spelling will not be a part of the post at all, but will be defined by external Cascading Spelling Sheets. Of course, in order to implement this we all have to learn Chinese.

Holo-Porn

[Hallowed]

That might be just enough bandwidth to get a life-like signal to the holographic projector!

What would I do?-Horror-vision.

[Anonymous Coward]

"What would Joe Sixpack do with it? I'm not sure at the moment. Thing is, since we're working within our limitations today it's hard to concieve of whta use it'd be."

The Goatse.cx experience in holographic, 5.1 surround-sound, smello-tactile-vision.

Donald Duck

[DonaldDuckBigO]

Donald Duck is going to have a SCREAMING ORGASM when he downloads Daisy Duck pr0n at 10Gbps and sees how hot she is OMG OMG OMG

play an entire orc army

[Machine9]

on world of warcraft, using a single router to hook several dozens of PCs to the net.

You won't actually have to control the orcs, the mere sight of them on your screen will initiate instant lag-death for people with lesser video cards.

Presidential Bioinformatics

[buckhead_buddy]

But just how much data can a person consume?'

100 Megabytes per chromosome
x 23 chromosomes per gamete
x 20 million gametes per ejaculation

Therefore Ms. Lewinsky can consume roughly 46,000,000,000 megabytes
(assuming that there is no overflow to a dress)

How much can you consume?

Argh! No more!

[namespan]

Dude, what *is* it with the porn meme? There's like 15 comments to that effect already in this thread, before it broke 50 comments. If every slashdotter was as dedicated/addicted to downloading pr0n as is stereotype goes, the whole freakin' internet would have been DDOSd long ago.

Yeah, I know it's popular, but geez. Not all of us are spending our time gazing and wanking. Some of us actually code (and even talk to women!)

I hereby banish this to the Beowulf cluster of memes, along with Soviet Russia/Hot Grits/Profit!

Re:That's exactly the quote I remembered

[SillyNickName4me]

Well..
I wish my compu had less ram... so that a system dump takes a bit shorter.. ;)

Re:Posts mentioning Porn

[Anonymous Coward]

move beyond the teenage years and enter into a discussion that isn't focused around the act of parading women

No, thanks :-)

Re:Porn!

[rokzy]

It had to be said.

It [slashdot.org] was [slashdot.org].

Re:Presidential Bioinformatics

[Anonymous Coward]

Close, but not entirely accurate.

A single gamete has 1.5 billion individual base pairs. Of course, that's base-4, since DNA doesn't work off of binary. ACGT is what you're made of. :) In other words, you have 3 billion bits per DNA strand. The average male ejaculation contains around 150 million sperm. This means that there is a total of 450,000,000,000,000,000 bits of information, which turns into 56.25 petabytes of information. That number is close to yours, but your information is wrong.

The fact that I just corrected you is pretty sad as well.

Patches.

[empaler]

Several hundred megabyte patches.

Oh.

Re:Argh! No more!

[Commander Trollco]

<voice "nerd">And some of us code women! Girl robot, here I come (cum?)!</voice>

And don't bash hot grits. Hot grits was cool.

Re:Argh! No more!

[Anonymous Coward]

I hereby banish this to the Beowulf cluster of memes

Funny, the "Wow! Imagine a Beowulf cluster of these!" was my initial response.

Re:Posts mentioning Porn

[bigdreamer]

Seriously gentleman, move beyond the teenage years and enter into a discussion that isn't focused around the act of parading women. Sorry, it isn't funny, intelligent, and I think most readers would say that you are simply embarassing yourself.

You must be new here. [slashdot.org]

Speaking as a heterosexual female in a committed relationship, even I enjoy watching pornography every once in a while. It's not a terrible thing. Besides, after you hang around male geeks for a while, you'll realize that many of them are seriously sexually deprived. Porn is all they have, which is really sad, actually. Makes me want to clone myself to satisfy the male geek population. ;)

Re:Argh! No more!

[optikSmoke]

I hereby banish this to the Beowulf cluster of memes, along with Soviet Russia/Hot Grits/Profit!

Umm, ya. Well done. The, um, banishing of things into..... popularity. That'll be effective. We all know how unused each of those oft-repeating jokes are. Oh, wait......

damn.

All your base are belong to porn?

Re:Remote Virtual Immersion

[gnuman99]

If I was going under the knife remotely, I'd want the surgeon to have as much bandwidth as possible (and very, very, very low latency).

Instead of very low latency, I would prefer no lost packets and *smooth* motion, and not that jagged back and forth you sometimes get! Ouch!

Re:Remote Virtual Immersion

[MP3Chuck]

Imagine a malpractice lawsuit!

Exhibit A: Surgery Log
[DR]Surgeon opened Xx[Patient]xX's abdomen with a scalpel.
[DR]Surgeon punctures Xx[Patient]xX's stomach with forceps.
Xx[Patient]xX: OMGWTF??!!
[DR]Assistant: ROFL PWNED!!1
[DR]Surgeon: STFU N00B i ping 350
Xx[Patient]xX: w/e

Re:What would I do?

[rokzy]

>...will Microsoft see this as an opportunity to release new, extra-inefficient network protocols?

yes, every packet will contain an easter egg flight simulator.