NetBSD Sets Internet2 Land Speed World Record

NetBSD Sets Internet2 Land Speed World Record 336

Posted by timothy on Monday May 03, 2004 @07:33PM from the showoffs dept.

Daniel de Kok writes "Researchers of the Swedish University Network (SUNET) have beaten the Internet2 Land Speed Record using two Dell 2650 machines with single 2GHz CPUs running NetBSD 2.0 Beta. SUNET has transferred around 840 GigaBytes of data in less than 30 minutes, using a single IPv4 TCP stream, between a host at the Luleå University of Technology and a host connected to a Sprint PoP in San Jose, CA, USA. The achieved speed was 69.073 Petabit-meters/second. According to the research team, NetBSD was chosen 'due to the scalability of the TCP code.'"

"More information about this record including the NetBSD configuration can be found at: http://proj.sunet.se/LSR2/
The website of the Internet2 Land Speed Record (I2-LSR) competition is located at: http://lsr.internet2.edu/"

NetBSD Sets Internet2 Land Speed World Record

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That'll learn em. (Score:4, Funny)

by Maradine ( 194191 ) * writes: on Monday May 03, 2004 @07:34PM (#9046427) Homepage

Fools, BSD is dea . . . oh, wait, what?

No matter (Score:5, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Monday May 03, 2004 @07:35PM (#9046442)

They will still get slashdotted.

Wow! Two Boxes, and one CPU. (Score:1, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Monday May 03, 2004 @07:37PM (#9046464)

How does that work?

Question... (Score:5, Funny)

by 8tim8 ( 623968 ) writes: on Monday May 03, 2004 @07:37PM (#9046470) Journal

SUNET has transferred around 840 GigaBytes of data in less than 30 minutes
Does this mean we've broken the "station wagon loaded with DVD's" barrier yet?

WOOHOO ! (Score:3, Funny)

by Sonic McTails ( 700139 ) writes: on Monday May 03, 2004 @07:37PM (#9046473)

We can now DoS sites at even faster speed !

Re:Question... (Score:5, Funny)

by AhBeeDoi ( 686955 ) writes: on Monday May 03, 2004 @07:41PM (#9046502)

Does this mean we've broken the "station wagon loaded with DVD's" barrier yet?

Not quite. However, we're appproching the Mini-Cooper barrier.

Piratbyran (Score:1, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Monday May 03, 2004 @07:44PM (#9046531)

What was the slogan of the recent pro-piracy demo in Sweden? "Vi vil har sex, vi vil har sex, vi vil har 600MBit!"?

Mandatory RIAA/MPAA Comment (Score:5, Funny)

by FlameboyC11 ( 711446 ) writes: on Monday May 03, 2004 @07:45PM (#9046541)

Somebody should show Valentini [slashdot.org] this, I wonder what he'd say...

Val: "You students transfered how much?"
Sunnet: "About 30 movies a minute"
Val: "Un-fucking beli-Oh wait, I already said that..."

Nothing like.. (Score:5, Funny)

by cmacmanus ( 713176 ) * writes: on Monday May 03, 2004 @07:46PM (#9046543) Homepage

..transferring 840 gb of swedish porn across the pond. ;)

How long till we can use it? (Score:3, Funny)

by DroopyStonx ( 683090 ) writes: on Monday May 03, 2004 @07:46PM (#9046546)

When is this supposed to be available for the average joe to use?

Also, what measures (if any) have they taken to combat the current internet's limitations and vulnerabilities?

Re:Huh? (Score:5, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Monday May 03, 2004 @07:47PM (#9046547)

What is a petabit-meter?

Think of it like 3 meters per acregallon of footyards/second divided by hectares per ohm.

Re:How long till we can use it? (Score:4, Funny)

by RelliK ( 4466 ) writes: on Monday May 03, 2004 @07:49PM (#9046570)

When is this supposed to be available for the average joe to use?
Thursday.

The PMS as a unit of measure? (Score:2, Funny)

by loqi ( 754476 ) writes: on Monday May 03, 2004 @07:49PM (#9046575)

Sorry, but I've seen much higher rates of it than this.

Re:That'll learn em. (Score:5, Funny)

by Bombcar ( 16057 ) writes: <racbmob@bo[ ]ar.com ['mbc' in gap]> on Monday May 03, 2004 @07:54PM (#9046611) Homepage Journal

No, but at that speed they sure must've been rushing it to the hospital!

Re:Question... (Score:5, Funny)

by PacoTaco ( 577292 ) writes: on Monday May 03, 2004 @07:59PM (#9046657)

My Netflix subscription works out to about 60 KB/s.

RTFS (Score:3, Funny)

by Granis ( 92074 ) writes: on Monday May 03, 2004 @07:59PM (#9046659)

Read the Fucking Summary ;)

Re:Distances, people!!! (Score:2, Funny)

by tedu ( 647286 ) writes: on Monday May 03, 2004 @07:59PM (#9046661)

if you take a look at map, you'll notice that san jose is kinda far away from sweden.

Keep working on it - not fast enough. (Score:4, Funny)

by Neil Blender ( 555885 ) writes: <neilblender@gmail.com> on Monday May 03, 2004 @08:00PM (#9046671)

Everything should be instant

I bet you were a little shithead when you were a kid.

Re:Question... (Score:2, Funny)

by MrRuslan ( 767128 ) writes: on Monday May 03, 2004 @08:04PM (#9046698)

Imagine that...and less than a month ago a homming pigion was top of the line...

Re:Huh? (Score:2, Funny)

by operagost ( 62405 ) writes: on Monday May 03, 2004 @08:11PM (#9046747) Homepage Journal

My operating system gets forty petabytes to the nanometer and that's the ways I likes it!

Re:Can we get a Uhaul trailer? (Score:5, Funny)

by kidgenius ( 704962 ) writes: on Monday May 03, 2004 @08:12PM (#9046752)

Ok, time to toss a few 250GB harddrives into an SR-71 flying at Mach 3. We cannot be outdone by mere information over wires!

Cursive writing is for fools! (Score:2, Funny)

by Deraj DeZine ( 726641 ) writes: on Monday May 03, 2004 @08:15PM (#9046769)

Notice that you accidentally dotted an "a", you cursive-writing moron! If you would just print like a regular person, that would never happen.

Air speed record (Score:4, Funny)

by sulli ( 195030 ) * writes: on Monday May 03, 2004 @08:17PM (#9046784) Journal

still held by Norway [linux.no]

Re:Cue pr0n jokes (Score:2, Funny)

by Neil Blender ( 555885 ) writes: <neilblender@gmail.com> on Monday May 03, 2004 @08:27PM (#9046858)

Theres no way you're gonna get 840gigs of Necrophilia porn on the internet.

Don't forget, we're talking sunet.se. I used to archie tons of porn off there more than 10 years ago. If anyone's got it, sunet does.

Re:1MB? (Score:5, Funny)

by Lord Kano ( 13027 ) writes: on Monday May 03, 2004 @08:35PM (#9046914) Homepage Journal

how about we get 1MBS real downloadspeed in everyones home before we go shooting porn to reach ISP owners at the speed of light.

Hey buddy. Even on a 56k modem, you're still downloading your pr0n at pretty much the speed of light.

LK

Re:Question... (Score:3, Funny)

by applef00 ( 574694 ) writes: on Monday May 03, 2004 @08:45PM (#9047005) Homepage

Not quite. However, we're appproching the Mini-Cooper barrier.
At what point will we reach the El Camino loaded with bootleg porn barrier?

They done it! (Score:5, Funny)

by dj245 ( 732906 ) writes: on Monday May 03, 2004 @08:53PM (#9047081) Homepage

They Stole Sprint's DS-3 cards! [slashdot.org]

Re:That'll learn em. (Score:2, Funny)

by 3) profit!!! ( 773340 ) writes: on Monday May 03, 2004 @09:01PM (#9047145) Homepage

Or it must be running on bad news.

Long Fat Pipe (Score:3, Funny)

by bsd4me ( 759597 ) writes: on Monday May 03, 2004 @09:15PM (#9047256)

One of the biggest problems in networking is handling a large bandwidth-delay product (that's the amount of data in flight at once). Since distance increases the delay it is relevant.

If anyone cares, a connection with a large bandwidth delay product is sometimes called a long fat pipe. A good networking book should discuss this. I think Steven's TCP/IP Illustrated, Volume 1 has a section on it(my copy is at work.)

Re:Dell 2650 (Score:1, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Monday May 03, 2004 @09:30PM (#9047363)

Because they had a $300 off coupon* plus free upgrade to 256MB!

* - Requires MSN subscription...

Re:Huh? (Score:2, Funny)

by kevman42 ( 681617 ) writes: on Monday May 03, 2004 @09:35PM (#9047384)

Consarnit, I won't care until they start measuring it in furlongs per fortnight or hogsheads to the barrel!

Re:Dell 2650 (Score:2, Funny)

by dilby ( 725275 ) writes: on Monday May 03, 2004 @10:36PM (#9047685) Journal

For Dell's superior tech support.

Re:That'll learn em. (Score:2, Funny)

by RamboCalrissian ( 772602 ) writes: on Tuesday May 04, 2004 @12:05AM (#9048297)

BSD's not dead, it's just been getting a new game plan. 1. Achieve ridiculously high transfer speeds. 2. Activate computers worldwide. 3. Pull a Skynet and take over.

Re:Well, not having RTFA... (Score:3, Funny)

by orasio ( 188021 ) writes: on Tuesday May 04, 2004 @10:39AM (#9051215) Homepage

And many customers would demand that the parts be made in North America - they wouldn't accept made in China or Taiwan.

Sigh. I miss working at JDS.

I guess they accept parts from China or Taiwan now : )

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That'll learn em. (Score:4, Funny)

No matter (Score:5, Funny)

Wow! Two Boxes, and one CPU. (Score:1, Funny)

Question... (Score:5, Funny)

WOOHOO ! (Score:3, Funny)

Re:Question... (Score:5, Funny)

Piratbyran (Score:1, Funny)

Mandatory RIAA/MPAA Comment (Score:5, Funny)

Nothing like.. (Score:5, Funny)

How long till we can use it? (Score:3, Funny)

Re:Huh? (Score:5, Funny)

Re:How long till we can use it? (Score:4, Funny)

The PMS as a unit of measure? (Score:2, Funny)

Re:That'll learn em. (Score:5, Funny)

Re:Question... (Score:5, Funny)

RTFS (Score:3, Funny)

Re:Distances, people!!! (Score:2, Funny)

Keep working on it - not fast enough. (Score:4, Funny)

Re:Question... (Score:2, Funny)

Re:Huh? (Score:2, Funny)

Re:Can we get a Uhaul trailer? (Score:5, Funny)

Cursive writing is for fools! (Score:2, Funny)

Air speed record (Score:4, Funny)

Re:Cue pr0n jokes (Score:2, Funny)

Re:1MB? (Score:5, Funny)

Re:Question... (Score:3, Funny)

They done it! (Score:5, Funny)

Re:That'll learn em. (Score:2, Funny)

Long Fat Pipe (Score:3, Funny)

Re:Dell 2650 (Score:1, Funny)

Re:Huh? (Score:2, Funny)

Re:Dell 2650 (Score:2, Funny)

Re:That'll learn em. (Score:2, Funny)

Re:Well, not having RTFA... (Score:3, Funny)

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