New Internet Land Speed Record

Caltech issued the following Press Release describing a new Internet2 Land Speed record. This record was set by a collaboration that includes CACR and employs 10 Gbit networking gear located in CACR’s computational facility.

Scientists at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) and the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), along with colleagues at AMD, Cisco, Microsoft Research, Newisys, and S2io have set a new Internet2 land-speed record. The team transferred 859 gigabytes of data in less than 17 minutes at a rate of 6.63 gigabits per second between the CERN facility in Geneva, Switzerland, and Caltech in Pasadena, California, a distance of more than 15,766 kilometers. The speed is equivalent to transferring a full-length DVD movie in just four seconds. Read more »