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The 15-petabyte network and the atom smasher {as usual the title is hype djf}
From: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2008 08:54:13 -0700
________________________________________ From: bobr () bobrosenberg phoenix az us [bobr () bobrosenberg phoenix az us] Sent: Wednesday, July 16, 2008 11:50 AM To: David Farber Subject: C|Net News: The 15-petabyte network and the atom smasher Dave Here's a little more 'gasoline' to throw on the Network Neutrality fire. "It may be less than two decades before commercial networks catch up: "Video and other media services are going to push the speed of consumer network connections up as the demand is going to be huge," Sansum said. "We were at today's speed of about 10Mbps about 10 to 15 years ago, so you could take that as a precedent for how long it will take for the commercial networks to catch up with us today."" Cheers, Bob -- Bob Rosenberg P.O. Box 33023 Phoenix, AZ 85067-3023 Mobile: 602-206-2856 LandLine: 602-274-3012 bob () bobrosenberg phoenix az us ************** "Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go, and that is down the path of increasingly repressive measures, until it becomes a source of terror to all its citizens and creates a country where everyone lives in fear." -- President Harry S. Truman, message to Congress, August 8, 1950 ************** The 15-petabyte network and the atom smasher By Nick Heath Published: July 15, 2008 1:30 PM PDT The 15-petabyte network and the atom smasher http://news.cnet.com/The-15-petabyte-network-and-the-atom-smasher/2100-1008_3-6243726.html Enough information to fill multiple CDs every second is flowing across the world on a network 1,000 times faster than home broadband. Terabytes of data are streaming through dedicated fiber-optic links between laboratories and universities globally in preparation for the world's largest particle accelerator, the Large Hadron Collider, being switched on in August at CERN in Geneva, Switzerland. The Large Hadron Collider Computing Grid (LCG), a super-high-bandwidth network, will channel about 15 petabytes--15 million gigabytes--of data from the LHC to about 5,000 scientists in 500 institutions every year for at least 10 years. The particle accelerator will smash subatomic particles, protons, into each other at 99 percent of the speed of light, spraying huge amounts of energy and particles into its detectors. The LCG will allow researchers to tap into the distributed processing power of almost 100,000 CPUs, crunching through vast amounts of data from the detectors and speeding their hunt for clues about the fundamental nature of the universe. Rutherford Appleton Laboratories, near Oxford, England, has a 10-gigabit connection to CERN capable of 1,250 megabits per second upstream and downstream that will pipe in almost-raw data from the collider via the U.K. part of the LCG--the GridPP. Andrew Sansum, tier one manager at RAL, said its connection with CERN is about 1,000 times faster than the download speeds on a home broadband connection. It may be less than two decades before commercial networks catch up: "Video and other media services are going to push the speed of consumer network connections up as the demand is going to be huge," Sansum said. "We were at today's speed of about 10Mbps about 10 to 15 years ago, so you could take that as a precedent for how long it will take for the commercial networks to catch up with us today." <snip> ------------------------------------------- Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/247/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/247/ Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
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