SC2004: World Network Speed Record Quadrupled
Caltech, SLAC, Fermilab, CERN, Florida and Partners in the UK, Brazil and Korea Set 101 Gigabit Per Second Mark During the SuperComputing 2004 Bandwidth Challenge.
PITTSBURGH, Pa. — For the second consecutive year, the High Energy Physics team of physicists, computer scientists and network engineers led by the California Institute of Technology and their partners at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC), Fermilab, CERN and the University of Florida, as well as international participants from the UK (University of Manchester, UCL and UKLight), Brazil (Rio de Janeiro State University, UERJ, and the State Universities of Sao Paulo, USP and UNESP) and Korea (Kyungpook National University, KISTI) joined forces at the Supercomputing 2004 (SC04) Bandwidth Challenge to capture the Sustained Bandwidth Award. Their demonstration of High Speed TeraByte Transfers for Physics achieved a throughput of 101 gigabits per second (Gbps) to and from the show floor, which exceeds the previous year’s mark of 23.2 Gbps, set by the same team, by a factor of more than four. The record data transfer speed is equivalent to downloading three full DVD movies per second, or transmitting all of the content of the Library of Congress in 15 minutes. It also has been estimated to be approximately 5% of the total rate of production of new content on Earth during the test. Read more »