[FRIAM] Hi-speed transfer demo

[Carl Tollander]

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>.
>
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