I wish I had this Internet Speed... lol

[FlashDrive (Poppy)]

Love to have this Download Speed.

Data Transfer Record: 186 Gbps.

Scientists and researchers have set a new Internet speed record by managing to transfer data at a sustained rate of 186 gigabits per second (Gbps), a rate equivalent to moving two million gigabytes -- or 100,000 full Blu-ray discs -- in a single day.

More than 100 petabytes (more than four million Blu-ray disks) of data have been processed, distributed, and analyzed using a global grid of 300 computing and storage facilities located at laboratories and universities around the world, and the data volume is expected to rise a thousand-fold as physicists crank up the collision rates and energies at the LHC.

Researchers have set a new 2-way network data transfer rate record of 186 Gbps in order to help work through tons of information spewing out of the Large Hadron Collider.

The researchers at Caltech, University of Michigan, and others have recently cooperated to push the limits of the amount of data that could be transferred in a wide area network. Today the computer experts acknowledge that very large quantities of data are able to be crammed down optical fibres and sent throughout the globe from continent to continent. The speeds in question are apparently equivalent to moving 2,000,000 Gb per day.

Now they expect that new networks could be constructed in order to use the technology in the next few years, most likely within the range of 40 to 100 Gbps. The 2-way connection, both ways reaching 88 Gbps to make up for a combined 186 Gpbs, sent information from ten Dell servers from British Columbia and Seattle through an optical network. This broke the earlier record, set by the same team, which was 119 Gbps two years ago. Moreover, the researchers decided to show the globe spanning potential of the high speed information network, and that’s why data was also sent to some institutes located in Brazil and Korea.

This network will be very helpful in work through the staggering amount of information derived from the Large Hadron Collider at the CERN facility, where the scientists are now trying to work through information that has indicated the presence of the Higgs boson.
Thus far, over 100 petabytes of data has been processed. This is really an outstanding amount of information, which could be compared to a Blockbusters-beating 100,000,000 Blu-ray disks. Meanwhile, the researchers believe that it’s only the start, because experts of the Large Hadron Collider will smash even more particles together.

At the moment, it is expected that the experts in laboratories all over the globe will be able to get their hands on information in order to solve mysteries of the universe rather than having to watch a download bar run as swiftly as an MP3 on a slow dial-up connection. Everything becomes easy our days, and petascale particle physics information can now be transferred to any corner of the world in merely a couple of hours.

More info here.:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/1...n_1154065.html

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[mithrandir (Andrew)]

I wonder what download limit comes with that?

Somehow I don't think the NBN will deliver speed anywhere near that.

I'd settle for 1Gb to my router and say 1TB/month, for a few years at least.

[Rick Petrie]

Has anybody told our Julia G this. NBN outdated already???

[gary]

It is important to keep in mind that all Caltech have done in this instance is
to test some commercial off-the-shelf 40 Gigabit Ethernet Network Interface
Cards (NICs) from Mellanox (specifically the ConnextX-3).
See product brochure here -
http://www.mellanox.com/related-docs...ochure_6.1.pdf

Last year, they had tested the predecessor to the ConnextX-3, the ConnectX-2 NIC,
but due to imitations with the servers they used which were only fitted with PCI
Express 2.0 buses, they could not exploit the full speed of the NICs were only
achieving 24Gbs in each direction.

This year, they upgraded their sever motherboards to those with PCI Express 3.0
compliant motherboards which they then fitted with dual-ported ConnextX-3 NIC's to
achieve the 98Gbps up and the 98Gbps down to achieve the all-round 186Gbps
speeds over a tuned network.

Where they faced some of their challenges were in aspects such as drivers
crashing. So not exactly at the leading edge of communications research
where engineers in labs are transferring data at much higher rates over optical
fibers but at the "bleeding edge" as far as being relatively early adopters
of this commercial technology in a academic WAN environment.

It is also important to keep in mind that 40 Gigiabit Ethernet and 100 Gigabit Ethernet
or 100Gbe is already an IEEE set of standards (IEEE 802.3ba) and that there
are several vendors already providing commercial offerings. If you want a WAN
at the office, data center or home providing these types of speeds, you can go out and
purchase the off-the-shelf-components today.

if you want to operate such a WAN over a distance of more than 10 meters, you will
want to be using optical fibers and the IEEE spec. already allows for 40km links
over single-mode fiber.

For example, some of the Australian ISP's have already upgraded their own
backbone networks to running 100Gbe in preparation for handling the huge data
volumes projected in the near future and for which the NBN is designed to
cater for.

The NBN engineers have specified single-mode fiber connections for the back-haul
(the mid to long distance transport of the data) and the cross-connects so it
is well positioned to exploit corresponding advances in technologies such as NICs.