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Tom Johnson (via Google Docs)

Hi-speed transfer demo

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>
.

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Carl Tollander

Hi-speed transfer demo

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 tom at jtjohnson.us
> <mailto:tom at jtjohnson.us>
>
> "You never change things by fighting the existing reality.
> To change something, build a new model that makes the
> existing model obsolete."
> -- Buckminster Fuller
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David Breecker

Hi-speed transfer demo

In reply to this post by Tom Johnson (via Google Docs)

I haven't heard about that demo, but as I understand it, NLR gives you as many lambdas as you like (or can pay for) at 10 Gbps apiece. So if they did 17.7 peak on what appears to have been a single lambda, I would think more is feasible?
db
----- Original Message -----
From: J T Johnson
To: 1st-Mile-NM ; Friam at redfish. com
Sent: Tuesday, January 09, 2007 10:39 AM
Subject: [FRIAM] Hi-speed transfer demo

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 and the University of Michigan, with partners at the University of Florida and Vanderbilt , 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 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 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.

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J. T. Johnson
Institute for Analytic Journalism -- Santa Fe, NM USA
www.analyticjournalism.com
505.577.6482(c) 505.473.9646(h)
http://www.jtjohnson.com tom at jtjohnson.us

"You never change things by fighting the existing reality.
To change something, build a new model that makes the
existing model obsolete."
-- Buckminster Fuller
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