Download available at http://monalisa.caltech.edu/monalisa__Download__.fdt.html
Carl J T Johnson wrote: > Of interest. Yes, it was "lab" conditions, but on a pretty good-sized > lab bench. But hasn't someone recently mentioned a demo of 40Gbps > through Lambda Rail? > > > Researchers Set Record For Network Data Transfers > > A team of university computer scientists, network engineers, and > physicists from the *California Institute of Technology* > <http://www.caltech.edu/> and the *University of Michigan* > <http://www.umich.edu/>, with partners at the *University of Florida* > <http://www.ufl.edu/> and *Vanderbilt * <http://www.vanderbilt.edu/>, > set records for data transfer speeds during a conference "bandwidth > challenge" in Tampa, Fla. > > The team achieved a peak throughput of 17.77 gigabits per second > (Gbps) between clusters of servers on the show floor of the > SuperComputing 2006 <http://sc06.supercomputing.org/>conference in > Tampa and the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena. > Following rules set for the challenge, the researchers used a single > 10-Gbps link provided by National Lambda Rail <http://www.nlr.net/> > that carried data in both directions. > > One of the key advances in the demo was Fast Data Transport (FDT), a > Java application developed by Iosif Legrand of Caltech, that runs on > all major platforms and achieves stable disk reads-and-writes and > smooth data flow across a long-range network. FDT streams a large set > of files across an open TCP socket, so that a typically large data set > composed of thousands of files can be sent or received at full speed > without the network transfer restarting between files... For more > information, click here > <http://www.cacr.caltech.edu/news/story.cfm?ID=25>. > > -- > ========================================== > J. T. Johnson > Institute for Analytic Journalism -- Santa Fe, NM USA > www.analyticjournalism.com <http://www.analyticjournalism.com> > 505.577.6482(c) 505.473.9646(h) > http://www.jtjohnson.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > "You never change things by fighting the existing reality. > To change something, build a new model that makes the > existing model obsolete." > -- Buckminster Fuller > ========================================== > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org
