New Internet2 speed record
p2pnet.net News:- A new Internet2 Land Speed Record that’s nearly 10,000 times faster than a typical home broadband connection has been set by a team from CERN in Switzerland and Caltech in the US.
And it went like this:
- Los Angeles – Sunnyvale (Abilene): 489 km
Sunnyvale – Kansas City (Abilene): 2403 km
Kansas City – Indianapolis (Abilene) 727 km
Indianapolis – Chicago (Abilene): 263 km
Chicago – Geneva (LHCnet/Datatag): 7067 km
Total? 10949 km (6803.39318380657 miles : )
The clocked speed averaged 6.25 gigabits per second with multiple TCP Reno streams for more than 10 minutes using Microsoft Windows for 64 bit with Jumbo frames (9000bytes), says the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) site here.
"The mark of 68,431 terabit-metres per second, used the same IPv4 protocols deployed throughout the global Internet, says an innovations report story here, going on that the same team previously set a new mark of four Gbps over the same distance using IPv6, the next generation of Internet protocols.
"This new record is of great importance to the future of data intensive Grids such as the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) Computing Grid that CERN, together with its LHC partners around the world, is actively deploying," said Olivier Martin, Head of External Networking at CERN and Manager of the European Union DataTAG project.
"We are hopeful that new IPv4 and IPv6 Internet2 Land Speed Records will be established this year, bringing us closer to 100 petabit-metres per second marks, or nominal 10 gigabits per second throughputs."
The new multi-stream record, "is an important step towards next generation Grids where scientists are able to share an ensemble of links based on 10 gigabit per second optical wavelengths efficiently," said Caltch professor of physics Harvey Newman.
"Recent studies of network requirements by the US Department of Energy have shown that high energy physics, astrophysics, fusion energy, climatology, bioinformatics and other fields will require networks in the terabit per second range within the next decade. In order to realize this vision, we are now working on moving these developments into a production setting, and moving on together with our partners to higher speeds and hybrid networks involving both traditional links and dynamically switched optical paths."
April 21st, 2004 at 10:36 pm
Wow. Kudos to them
Im very impressed, its amazing how far technology has come since the 90’s. 6.25 gigabits per second? Man…That would fill my harddrive up in less then a minute. Imagine if the feds busted a topsite/dump that had those capabilities? *whistles*..Someone would pay dearly for that. Im still waiting for the day when cable companies allow unrestricted uploads all across the world..It’ll happen. The only reason it doesnt happen now is because of piracy (I would think…) and because it screws everything up for the cable companies. They dont like servers because they cant handle em..Someone quote me if im wrong, id really like to know the whole scoop.
April 23rd, 2004 at 7:59 am
>>Man…That would fill my harddrive up in less then a minute.
Except it can’t write anywhere near that fast.