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Now, that's what I call BROADband

posted by [personal profile] sbisson at 04:13pm on 25/04/2005
From a press release received today:
Today, in a significant milestone for scientific grid computing, eight major computing centres successfully completed a challenge to sustain a continuous data flow of 600 megabytes per second (MB/s) on average for 10 days from CERN(1) in Geneva, Switzerland to seven sites in Europe and the US. The total amount of data transmitted during this challenge—500 terabytes—would take about 250 years to download using a typical 512 kilobit per second household broadband connection.
Now if only I had that sort of connection here...

...but then I'd run out of disk space really quickly!
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posted by [identity profile] devilgate.livejournal.com at 08:18am on 25/04/2005
[livejournal.com profile] scunner (our former lead guitarist) is rarely seen around these parts nowadays, but that's what he went to Geneva to work on, I believe.
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posted by [identity profile] razorsmile.livejournal.com at 09:38am on 25/04/2005
"...but then I'd run out of disk space really quickly!"

Ah, but what a way to go.

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posted by [personal profile] mdlbear at 07:27pm on 25/04/2005
"Your network is insignificant compared with the bandwidth of a truck full of hard drives."

500TB works out to only 2000 250GB hard drives, which would fit neatly in the back of a station wagon. Still, a CD per second is fairly impressive.
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posted by [identity profile] marypcb.livejournal.com at 12:43am on 29/04/2005
autopope has a version of that: "never underestimate the bandwidth of a 747 filled with DVDs"
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