Saturday, 4. September 2004
Topic: COMPUTER - on September 4, 2004 at 12:25:00 PM CEST
Scientists set new Internet2 speed record
Scientist have set another Internet2 speed record in their quest to prepare for the 15 petabytes of data Cern will produce yearly. Quick access to this data is important if scientist are to do anything with it.
The team, which included folks from AMD, Cisco, Microsoft Research, Newsys, and S2io, transferred 859 gigabytes of data in less than 17 minutes. It did so at a rate of 6.63 gigabits per second between the CERN facility in Geneva, Switzerland, and Caltech in Pasadena, Calif., a distance of more than 15,766 kilometers, or approximately 9,800 miles.
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