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Hard Disk Makers Collaborate For More Speed
News Hard drives are a key bottleneck in computers, doubly so for servers that often struggle to keep up with computing loads such as keeping track of all a bank's ATM transactions. Serial connections are cropping up all over the computing industry as a...
[November 28, 2001, 9:10]
Stackelberg Approach For Pricing Differentiated Services
White Papers This paper considers both real-time traffic as well as data transfers sharing a common bottleneck link. The paper assumes that data transfer uses TCP congestion control protocol and that real-time traffic uses some TCP- friendly transport protocol...
[December 27, 2007, 0:01]
Characteristic Oscillation And Intermittency In TCP-RED Gateway
White Papers It has been found that a bottleneck RED gateway can become oscillatory when regulating a number of TCP flows. The Internet has become an important medium of information transfer. This paper develops a dynamic model to qualitatively describe the...
[October 22, 2008, 1:19]
TCP Libra: Exploring RTT-Fairness For TCP
White Papers If these TCP sessions share the same bottleneck, they are expected to receive the same share of bandwidth, thus achieving the same transfer rate. The majority of Internet traffic relies on the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) devised in the...
[December 27, 2007, 0:01]
Fast Ethernet Is Sometimes Faster Than Gigabit Ethernet On LFN - Observation Of Congestion Control Of TCP Streams
White Papers This paper shows the observation on TCP/IP 7500-mile data transfer between Maryland and Tokyo, where the bottleneck is OC-12 APAN line. With the rapid progress of network technology, over- 10Gbps domestic backbone network is ready to use, and...
[December 21, 2007, 0:01]
LND: A Reliable Multi-Tier Storage Device In NOW
White Papers The expensive overhead of synchronous I/O has now become the bottleneck of increasing efficiency of data storage in transaction-based systems. This paper proposes a multi-tier storage device, the LND (Local- Network Ram- Disk) device, which uses...
[August 23, 2007, 1:00]
A Unified Framework For Modeling TCP-Vegas, TCP-SACK, And TCP-Reno
White Papers Finally, the analysis provided by framework leads to many interesting observations with respect to both the behavior of bottleneck links that are shared by TCP sources and the effectiveness of the design decisions in TCP-SACK and TCP-Vegas.
[October 31, 2007, 0:00]
A Compound TCP Approach For High-Speed And Long Distance Networks
White Papers This new delay-based component can rapidly increase sending rate when network path is under utilized, but gracefully retreat in a busy network when bottleneck queue is built. Many applications require fast data transfer over high speed and long...
[May 24, 2007, 1:00]
'Opto-chip' Could Revolutionise Telecommunications
News Telecommunications companies already use fibre optics to send information around the world but transferring this information to electronic equipment has always been a bottleneck in transfer speeds. An "opto-chip" could revolutionise Internet...
[April 7, 2000, 11:37]
TDK Systems BlueM review
Reviews Beware that if you use a Bluetooth connection to synchronise your Palm with a host PC, the 1Mbit/s data transfer rate may prove to be a bottleneck compared to the 12Mbit/s of the USB HotSync cradle. Palm's own SD-format Bluetooth adapter, for...
[March 24, 2002, 23:00]
PCs, Notebooks To Get A Memory Speed Boost
News Memory access speed has increasingly become a bottleneck for the fastest PCs, as chip speeds have surpassed the 1GHz mark. The arrival of DDR will give users a way out of the bottleneck, and will also increase pressure on Rambus, which is supplying...
[September 7, 2000, 14:55]
Microsoft Wants To Network Your Home
News Microsoft is looking to uncork a bottleneck for its software and services in the home by selling networking products, starting this autumn, company representatives said. We want to enable software and services through the home, and we've found that...
[July 11, 2002, 14:29]
Comdex: USB 2.0 Looking Good In Vegas
News Another bottleneck in the USB 2.0 pipeline is driver support: Microsoft is working on USB 2.0 drivers in tandem with the chipset-makers, and expects to deliver support under Windows 2000 first, followed by Windows ME, and then Windows 98 SE.
[November 14, 2000, 16:04]
Vista SP1 - Now Installed And Running
Blog Comment I wouldn't have expected there to be much or any difference from the transfer to a usb hdd as the bottleneck would be the drives read/write times but it doesn't explain the erratic estimated time. The file transfer I found was slightly quicker in...
[March 25, 2008, 14:14]
US Report: PC Giants Split With Intel On Server Design
News As a result, current PCI-based I/O is a bottleneck for processing multiple applications. PCIX will support bus speeds of up 133MHz, and it will transfer up to 1GB per second between the CPU and the peripherals.
[September 4, 1998, 14:46]
ATI Speeds Up Memory Chips
News Memory has been a bottleneck on graphics cards for many years," Glaskowsky said. Memory chips have been the primary limiting factor in how fast you can render things and transfer them to the screen.that's the main reason the graphics industry has...
[October 8, 2002, 8:13]
Sony Gets Out Its Big Stick
News It adds record times to the debate, which is important because with higher capacities, consumers can store more large files, and a bottleneck can be created on devices. With the increasing popularity of digital video, offering faster speed transfer...
[January 13, 2003, 9:40]
Light-emitting Silicon Boosts Chip Speeds
News But connection between optical networks and silicon circuits result in a bottleneck in communications. By enabling silicon to emit light, the scientists say they may have found a way to use light to efficiently transfer data around microchips.
[March 8, 2001, 15:02]
Epson Stylus Photo 2100 review
Reviews However, as we expected, using a higher-speed interface won't speed up the process -- the print mechanism is the bottleneck, and the memory buffer isn't large enough to cache more data. To transfer your images from PC to paper, the printer also...
[September 11, 2002, 7:50]
AMD's Duron Completes Ambitious Line-up
News Duron also boasts a 200MHz front-side bus, the gateway between the chip and the rest of the system, which can become a bottleneck in fast systems. Like the new Athlons, its memory cache is integrated onto the chip die, allowing the unit to transfer...
[June 20, 2000, 8:55]
