A group of researchers have found a way to quickly transfer huge amounts of data over computer networks, paving the way for greater global scientific cooperation and future commercial uses.
By shuttling data at a sustained rate of 101 gigabits--the equivalent of three DVD movies--per second between Pittsburgh and Los Angeles, the so-called High Energy Physics team shattered a record for data transfer and won the Supercomputing Bandwidth Challenge, a contest geared toward improving network connection speed for grid computing.
The team sustained the 101-gigabit speed for only a few minutes during the 90-minute demonstration, peaking at just above the 101-gigabit mark. But "we are confident if we did it again...we would sustain the 100+gbps throughput for hours," Harvey Newman, professor of physics at the California Institute of Technology and the head of the team, wrote in an e-mail. Transfer rates of 130gbps to 140gbps are likely possible, he added.
yup, think its gonna be a long time till were playing CS on a super computer :D
will come in handy for banks n big companies like that, but its basicaly just geeks showing off
