A team of physicists, computer scientists, and network engineers have demonstrated a network capable of blasting 186 gigabits per second of data between two supercomputers.
During the SuperComputing conference 2011 in November, researchers installed high-end servers and 100Gbps networking gear to connect a supercomputer at the conference in Seattle to another in Victoria, British Columbia, it was revealed in a statement on Wednesday. The team said this new bandwidth record could lead to crucial tools for scientific inquiry — for example, in crunching data from the Large Hadron Collider — and is a signal of where commercial networking products are going.
Researchers were able to simultaneously send data at 98Gbps in one direction and 88Gbps in the other, breaking the record set by the team two years earlier. The pieces of hardware used for the demonstration were optimised commercial equipment from Dell, Brocade and other suppliers.
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