Another Internet2 Speed Record Broken

rdwald writes "An international team of scientists led by Caltech have set a new Internet2 speed record of 101 gigabits per second. They even helpfully converted this into one LoC/15 minutes. Lots of technical details in this press release; in addition to the obviously better network infrastructure, new TCP protocols were used."

Gigabits...

[wittj]

The speed is 101 Gigabits per second (Gbps), not Gigabytes.

Re:Doesn't make sense

[PhrostyMcByte]

They are talking about "Fast [caltech.edu]" TCP, which AFAIK just consists of a better routing algorithm and using multiple TCP streams at once.

Bytes'n'Bits

[mx.2000]

speed record of 101 gigabytes per second.

Wait, isn't this supposed to be a nerdy tech magazine?

I mean, I except this kind of Bit/Byte confusion on CNN, but on slashdot...

Re:Gigabits!

[compro01]

still, thats 12.625 GBps. it's still plenty fast.

that's my entire hard drive moved in 10 seconds.

Re:Gigabits...

[LSD-OBS]

Around 1.5 full length DVDs including extra features, per second. Yikes!

Re:My Car Gets Forty Rod to the Hogsgead

[jahill_isu]

I mean that's a full terabyte almost every minute and a half. What has so much data?

Internet 2 as well as the Engineering Science Network [es.net] are being setup to move massive amounts of data from science labs to computational labs within the US Department of Energy.
Labs like Fermilab are expecting to produce hundreds of terabytes per day of data from research when they come online.

Re:My Car Gets Forty Rod to the Hogsgead

[Anonymous Coward]

Here's a link http://computing.fnal.gov/news/chictribune090203.h tml

CERN Conseil Europeen pour le Recherche Nucleaire (European Laboratory for Particle Physics)

Important Point:
When CERN comes online in about 5 years, it's expected to churn out petabytes of data. Yeah. I meant that. Petabytes, as in 1024 terabytes. Fermilab is already turning out terabytes but it will be surpassed greatly by CERN.

A particle accelerator is basically taking very high resolution images in 3 dimensions hundreds of times a second. It's pretty easy to see how so much data is accumulated.

Re:Sustained transfer?

[Idarubicin]

... what has that kind of read/write speed?

For the first time, a comment that starts "Imagine a Beowulf cluster..." might actually be on topic.

More seriously, the Internet2 is designed for transferring massive scientific data sets between research institutions. The folks at CERN are planning to run experiments that generate terabytes of data per second. They're no doubt going to be using buckets of RAM and monster arrays of drives operating in parallel to keep on top of that. They wouldn't be developing these big pipes of they didn't think they could fill them in the next few years.

Re:Too Fast for its Own Good

[FrYGuY101]

Have the throngs of people correcting you that Bill Gates didn't actually say it taught you nothing?