Researchers from the California Institute of Technology have managed to get data over a network to send a recordsnelheid of 339Gbps. This is almost a doubling compared to the record that is the researchers a year earlier settled.
To use this high throughput to achieve the researchers used three 100Gbps wide area networks, Caltech, the University of Victoria Computing Center in British Columbia, the University of Michigan and the Salt Palace Convention Center in Utah to connect with each other. The servers at these locations were using 40Gbps interfaces connected to these networks. The researchers demonstrated the high-throughput officially on the previously held SuperComputing 2012 conference.
The obtained, total sustained transfer rate of 339Gbps is almost a doubling compared to the performance of the end of last year, of the participating parties. Also knew the researchers for the first time, a throughput of 187Gbps to achieve a single, bi-directional connection, that the Victoria Computing Center and Salt Lake City together and were data with a speed of 75Gbps via rdma technology sent, in which the processor load is only five percent.
The researchers believe that it is possible in the near future is to get a guaranteed throughput of 1Tbps to achieve by making use of new network – and storage technology, which is now only available. In the fall of 2013 should this limit be reached.
