News Data Faster Than Speeding Bullet

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  1. GreatOldOne

    GreatOldOne Wannabe Martian

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    From Wired:

    GENEVA -- Two major scientific research centers said on Wednesday they had set a new world speed record for sending data across the Internet, equivalent to transferring a full-length DVD film in seven seconds.

    The European Organization for Nuclear Research, CERN, said the feat, doubling the previous top speed, was achieved in a nearly 30-minute transmission over 7,000 kilometers of network between Geneva and a partner body in California.

    CERN, whose laboratories straddle the Franco-Swiss border near Geneva, said it had sent 1.1 terabytes of data at 5.44 gigabits per second to a lab at the California Institute of Technology, or Caltech, on Oct. 1.

    Full story here

    Bloody hell! 7 Seconds!! :eeek:
     
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  2. BioSniper

    BioSniper Minimodder

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    thats VERY fast! :eeek:
    anyone want to donate it to me?? ;)
     
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  3. Liquid K9

    Liquid K9 Human programmer.. heh

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    I want :waah:
     
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  4. Atomic

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    That's cool, 10GB/s Connections will become normal... I like the sound of that.

    Really?
     
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  5. sinizterguy

    sinizterguy Dark & Sinizter

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    Using the fastest connections available, yes easily. In this case, I am fairly sure they mean DivX format rather than as a DVD.

    I have personally seen an entire 700mb file downloaded in less than 20 mins. Including searching for it.

    Obviously not 1 or 2 mbps DSL, we are talking LAN here, with a shared superfast connection.
     
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  6. daniel_owen_uk

    daniel_owen_uk What's a Dremel?

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    Can you imagine BT trying to rollout this sort of product, lol now thats funny.
     
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  7. JADS

    JADS Et arma et verba vulnerant

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    The question comes after a while; "can the computer keep up?"

    5.44GBit/s = 680MB/s.

    Ain't nothing but hardcore raid SCSI and SSD arrays that can possibly sustain those transfer rates. Then you have to look at the bus they are connected to, PCI would be swamped at 133MB/s, PCI-X 100/133MHz would handle it at 800/1064MB/s. Still they would be screwed unless the connection between northbridge and southbridge was sufficient, in the case of Intel no at a maximum of 266MB/s. I suspect that Grantsdale next year will have a fat pipe between north and south bridge.

    SATA II - 300MB/s
    PCI Express - >200 MB/s per slot
    Legacy PCI - 133MB/s
    Gigabit Ethernet - 125MB/s
    USB 2 - 60MB/s per slot

    It might be that the AGP slot is connected to the north bridge and the 16x PCI Express slot is connected to the south bridge. If this is the case expect some truly barmy bandwidth between northbridge and southbridge.

    Also there are issues with the transfer protocol, using TCP/IP would incur some truly silly overheads for 5.44GBit/s. It is why we are seeing diminishing returns for faster and faster network interfaces.

    Still nice to have that much speed.
     
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  8. Liquid K9

    Liquid K9 Human programmer.. heh

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    "BT has introduced a new 10Gbps broadband package. BT OpenFist, as its called is a slapper, with an ample 10Gb per month bandwidth - you'll be able to download whatever you want, whenever you want, if we want"

    A 10Gb monthly limit on a 10Gb per second connection - believe me, it'll happen....
     
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  9. Alaric

    Alaric code assassin

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    errr, well duh... since the majority of it's journey will be over fibre it's travelling close to the speed of light, which is faster than a speeding bullet... by rather a lot.

    don't expect we'll get anywhere near that kind of speed commercially till 2010 at least though, which is a mighty pity... ;)

    Alaric.
     
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  10. Swafeman

    Swafeman Minimodder

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    well thats a dvd

    divx = 1 second


    niceeeeeeeee

    /me drools
     
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  11. Conrad

    Conrad What's a Dremel?

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    thats about right, very nice liquid :D
     
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  12. Astrum

    Astrum Dare to dream.

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    I read about this. I thought me downloading a Gb in 5 minutes was fast, this blows my connection out of the water :jawdrop: .
     
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