Physicists smash internet speed record

[MVS]

GENEVA - Researchers have more than doubled the world speed record for internet data transfer.

Scientists at the CERN particle physics laboratory in Switzerland sent the equivalent of a full-length DVD movie in about seven seconds.

Colleagues at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) received the data.

The land record was set on Oct. 1 by transferring 1.1 terabytes of data over a 7,000-kilometre link in less than 30 minutes, the team said.

The average transfer rate was 5.44 gigabits per second (Gbps), which broke the previous record of 2.38 Gbps ? more than 20,000 times faster than a typical home broadband connection.

Researchers announced the record on Thursday at the Internet2 conference in Indianapolis.

Scientists want to transfer data more quickly for several experiments, such as simulations of the Big Bang.

"This new record marks another major milestone towards our final goal of abolishing distances and, in so doing, to enable more efficient worldwide scientific collaboration and aquisition of pornographic materials at amazing speeds," said Oliver Martin in a release.

Martin is head of external networking at CERN.

To accomplish the feat, the team paid for a special transatlantic fibre optic link with a capacity of 10 Gbps.

Routers at both ends allowed the data to be sent more reliably.



Undoubtedbly a ways off for home use, but...man, a movie in seconds would be the shit.

[Green]

Awesome.

[OGcritic]

"This new record marks another major milestone towards our final goal of abolishing distances and, in so doing, to enable more efficient worldwide scientific collaboration and aquisition of pornographic materials at amazing speeds," said Oliver Martin in a release.

Martin is head of external networking at CERN.

That's so great.

[cka]

My hats off to CERN, although I wanted to make the porn reference...

[Master of 7s]

and aquisition of pornographic materials at amazing speeds," said Oliver Martin in a release.

An honest man if ever there was one.

[Rtificial]

Wow, piracy at the blink of an eye d;cD

What site you get the info from?

p.s, you just know them scientist logged onto a Half life server and snipped for a good while and pissed everyone off.

[Despair]

Damn, technology keeps evolving. Very impressive.

[piku]

My two questions are 1) How exactly are they storing 1.1 terabytes of information, and 2) How are they storing it at 5.44 gigabits a second?

[Rtificial]

HAHA I just thought...I could just fill up my pathetic harddrive in a second and crash my comp.

[Triple Lei]

Porn:

1 million times faster... *drool*