CACR at SC2005: Seattle, WA
For the third consecutive year at the Supercomputing Conference series, an international team of scientists and engineers, including key staff from CACR, has smashed the network speed record, moving data at an average rate of 100 gigabits per second (Gbps) for several hours at a time. A rate of 100 Gbps is sufficient for transmitting five feature-length DVD movies on the Internet from one location to another in a single second.
The SC conference series brings together scientists, engineers, researchers, educators, senior managers, programmers, and system managers from the world’s leading computing installations and companies to showcase innovative developments that are sparking new ideas and new industries, as well as reinvigorating older ones. The SC05 theme, “Gateway to Discovery,” was inspired both by the beautiful and exciting city of Seattle, Washington and by the ever-expanding efforts of the High Performance Computing community to expand our knowledge through the use of HPC as gateways to new and useful discoveries.
Caltech was represented not only in the successful Bandwidth Challenge entry, but also in the conference exhibit hall once again – our 16th year. This year’s exhibit highlighted the following research areas:
- Caltech’s DOE ASC Center for Simulating the Dynamic Response of Materials
- Grids for Physics/HPC Bandwidth Challenge
- Geophysics: Enabling Science to Better Understand our Planet
- Virtual Astronomy: Facilitating Scientific Discovery (including the National Virtual Observatory and the Palomar-Quest Sky Survey )
Press
- BWC Press Release (Caltech): “World Network Speed Record Shattered for Third Consecutive Year“