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Internet2 Land Speed Record Set | |
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| Time: 00:56 EST/05:56 GMT | News Source: Microsoft | Posted By: Jonathan Tigner | ||
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It's not the Olympics. It's not the Kentucky Derby. It's not the Indy 500. But winning the race to send data across the world is a scientist's dream. The contest doesn't award the winner with money and fame. Instead, it awards the winner and everyone else with state-of-the-art computer performance and a step towards the next generation Internet. Jim Gray from the Bay Area Research Center (BARC) and Harvey Newman from CalTech will present the results of the latest world record-breaking race for speed on the Internet2 at the WinHec conference. Scientists from CERN and Cal Tech led the winning team, with help from Intel, S2io, AMD, and Microsoft. The operating system used to achieve the new record was Windows Server 64-bit. Ahmed Talat, from the Windows Server group, worked with scientists from several institutions and universities to configure the Windows Server 2003 system. Gray also worked with the team that set the record on February 22. |
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| #1 By 2332 (65.221.182.2) at Wednesday, May 05, 2004 09:18:04 AM |
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Was the land speed record *just* set by NetBSD a couple of days ago?
The guys on Slashdot were all harping about NetBSD and how Windows could never compete. I wonder if this will ever make it onto Slashdot, or if they will censor it like they usual do with pro-Windows articles. |
| #2 By 12071 (203.217.76.227) at Wednesday, May 05, 2004 11:03:52 AM |
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#1 "Was the land speed record *just* set by NetBSD a couple of days ago?"
No, it was set on the 14th of April and it was for a single stream. (http://lsr.internet2.edu/history.html). Given that it says in the "story" -> "Gray also worked with the team that set the record on February 22.", I'm guessing that this was the multiple stream record that was broken as Windows Server 2003 64-Bit Edition was used on February 22nd to beat the multiple stream record. "The guys on Slashdot were all harping about NetBSD and how Windows could never compete." Let's see, discussion on whether or not the different BSD's use the same TCP/IP stack, whether or not Windows still uses the BSD TCP/IP stack, few jokes, talk about compression, comparison of Linux's TCP/IP stack vs BSD's, and you summarized it all as "harping about NetBSD and how Windows could never compete", you should be a writer for a Windows-only site! (http://bsd.slashdot.org/bsd/04/05/03/2235255.shtml?tid=122&tid=126&tid=137&tid=185&tid=190&tid=215&tid=95) "censor it like they usual do with pro-Windows articles." Yes, all the "pro-Windows" articles are "censored". And they're all out to get you! |
| #3 By 9156 (192.55.140.2) at Wednesday, May 05, 2004 11:35:29 AM |
| How about they work on a plan to get broadband speed over dialup connections. That would be more helpful to a much larger group of people. There are still millions who are stuck with 24kbps or $100 a month for satallite. |
| #4 By 12071 (203.217.76.227) at Wednesday, May 05, 2004 11:42:30 AM |
| #3 Do you mean ADSL? Or one of the newer DSL standards which are much faster than ADSL? |
| #5 By 9156 (192.55.140.2) at Wednesday, May 05, 2004 12:02:33 PM |
| #4 No, I mean the capability to put DSL or Cable internet connection in every home. (or the equivelent) My parents for instance, live in a rural area where there only option to connect to the internet is dialup (24.4Kbps), or pay $100 a month for a satallite connection. Cable TV is not even an option in the area. They are stuck paying $20 for an second phone line and $20 for dialup internet and still takes an hour to download a 1MB file. |
| #6 By 61 (65.32.169.173) at Wednesday, May 05, 2004 01:53:26 PM |
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Austin, the maximum speed aloud over traditional telephone wires is 53kbps, you simply can not get broadband over telephone wires (with exception to what DSL does).
Reguardless of which way it goes, some company has to go out there and build the infrastructure for whatever type of broadband they support, be it cable, DSL, or over power lines. |
| #7 By 2332 (216.41.45.78) at Wednesday, May 05, 2004 02:18:11 PM |
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#2 - Yes, all the "pro-Windows" articles are "censored". And they're all out to get you!
Are you honestly of the opinion that Slashdot posts pro-Microsoft articles as much as it posts anti-Microsoft ones? I can give many examples of them convienently ignoring pro-MS stories, and yet being the first to post anti-MS stories. One example that sticks out in my head the most is the whole fiasco with Novell. Novell claimed that there was a serious security flaw in Active Directory. This was a very popular story on Slashdot and everybody made a big deal of it. A few days later it was discovered that the supposed security flaw was, in fact, ignorance on the part of the test team at Novell. They had forgotten to remove certain owner permissions on an OU, and this resulted in the supposed breach. There was a retraction issued by ZDNet (which first published the article), albiet a non-prominent one on their site... and yet Slashdot never posted it. Nor did they change the original post. All despite that fact that it was submitted multiple times. This is just one example of many. This post was edited by RMD on Wednesday, May 05, 2004 at 14:22. |
| #8 By 1989 (69.11.240.35) at Wednesday, May 05, 2004 03:50:52 PM |
| I think they should put NetBSD on one end and Windows on the other. Then we wouldn't have to listen to the *nix/windows comments... |
| #9 By 9156 (192.55.140.2) at Wednesday, May 05, 2004 04:23:36 PM |
| Yes 53k is the max allowed and 14.4k is the minimum that must be provided. Doesn’t that seem a little out of date? That means there are two options. Make a new way to highly compress data or change the rules of what is "allowed" and provided. We shouldn’t just accept what can currently be done with what we currently have...the mindset must always be "there is a better way". Ethernet for example, 100mbit is fast but now 1000mbit is an option over the same 4 pairs of wires. I know its a completely different ballgame then telephone, I'm just saying there are better ways of doing something with the same infrastructure. |
| #10 By 20505 (216.102.144.11) at Wednesday, May 05, 2004 06:50:41 PM |
| does this mean faster data transfers to Bangalore ? |
| #11 By 12071 (203.185.215.149) at Thursday, May 06, 2004 12:13:19 AM |
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#7 "Are you honestly of the opinion that Slashdot posts pro-Microsoft articles as much as it posts anti-Microsoft ones?"
No, and I didn't say that. I simply said that they don't "censor" pro-Microsoft articles. Many of the articles that show up on /. are user submitted, and as you can imagine the vocal section of /., the ones that are mainly anti-Microsoft are also the first to submit any anti-Microsoft article as oppose to a pro-Microsoft article. But none of this proves censorship as you claim or that /. doesn't post any pro-Microsoft articles, they do, maybe not as many as you like though. "One example that sticks out in my head the most is the whole fiasco with Novell. Novell claimed that there was a serious security flaw in Active Directory." Do you have a link to the slashdot article on this? Not that I don't believe you, but after the "harping about NetBSD and how Windows could never compete" I'm a little cautious. |
