INTERNET PERFORMANCE RECORDS SMASHED IN
INTERNET2 LAND SPEED RECORD COMPETITION
Caltech and CERN send more than one terabyte
of data across 7,000 km of network at 5.44 Gbps
Internet2(R) Land Speed Record by
transferring 1.1 terabytes of data across more than 7,000 kilometers (nearly
4,300 miles) of network in less than 30 minutes, representing an average rate
of more than 5.44 gigabits per second, more than 20,000 times faster than a
typical home broadband connection.
The mark of 38,420.54 terabit-meters per
second was set by a team consisting of members from the California Institute of
Technology (Caltech) and CERN.
"The team from Caltech and CERN has
demonstrated an unprecedented level of high-performance networking, focused on
supporting the requirements of leading-edge research," said Rich Carlson,
Chair of the I2-LSR judging panel.
"This new I2-LSR mark shows that the capabilities of the underlying
network infrastructure are able to accommodate even the most demanding needs of
scientists around the world."
The new mark was announced today in
conjunction with the Fall 2003 Internet2 Member
Meeting. The new record was set through
the efforts of the DataTAG and FAST projects, with
major sponsorship from Cisco Systems, the European Union, HP, Intel, Juniper
Networks, Level 3 Communications, T-Systems, the U.S. National Science
Foundation, and the U.S. Department of Energy: http://sravot.home.cern.ch/sravot/Networking/10GbE/LSR.htm.
"This is a major milestone towards our
goal of providing on-demand access to high energy physics data from around the
world, using servers affordable to physicists from all regions," said
Professor Harvey Newman, head of the Caltech team and chair of the ICFA
Standing Committee on Inter-Regional Connectivity. "We have now reached the point where
servers side by side have the same TCP performance as servers separated by
10,000 km. We also localized the current
bottleneck to the I/O capability of the end-systems, and we expect that systems
matching the full speed of a 10 Gbps link will be
commonplace in the relatively near future."
"This new record marks another major
milestone towards our final goal of abolishing distances and, in so doing,
enabling more efficient worldwide scientific collaboration," said Olivier Herve Martin, Head of External Networking at CERN and
Manager of the European Union DataTAG project. "The record further proves that it is no
longer a dream to replicate terabytes of data around the globe routinely and in
a timely manner."
The Internet2 Land Speed Record is an open
and ongoing competition. Details of the
winning entries, complete rules, submission guidelines and additional details
are available at: http://lsr.internet2.edu/.
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About CERN and DataTAG
CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear
Research, has its headquarters in
The DataTAG is a
project co-funded by the European Union, the U.S. Department of Energy, and the
National Science Foundation. It is led
by CERN together with four other partners.
The project brings together the following European leading research
agencies:
About Caltech
With an outstanding faculty, including four
Nobel laureates, and such off-campus facilities as the Jet Propulsion
Laboratory, Palomar Observatory, and the W.M. Keck Observatory, the California
Institute of Technology is one of the world's major research centers. The Institute also conducts instruction in
science and engineering for a student body of approximately 900 undergraduates
and 1,000 graduate students who maintain a high level of scholarship and
intellectual achievement Caltech's 124-acre campus is situated in Pasadena,
California, a city of 135,000 at the foot of the San Gabriel Mountains,
approximately 30 miles inland from the Pacific Ocean and 10 miles northeast of
the Los Angeles Civic Center. Caltech is
an independent, privately supported university, and is not affiliated with
either the
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Contacts:
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Michelle Pollak
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Caltech
Harvey Newman
newman@hep.caltech.edu
CERN
Olivier Martin
olivier.martin@cern.ch
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