ISI Helps Set Internet2 Land Speed Record
The team set a new standard for Internet performance by transferring 8.4 gigabytes of data from Redmond, Wash., to ISI’s East Coast office in Arlington, Va., in less than 82 seconds.
Using workstation computers at each endpoint with off-the-shelf Windows 2000 and standard TCP/IP stacks, the team achieved a rate of 749 gigabits per second with a single stream of data and 957 gigabits per second with a multi-stream.
“It’s a real challenge to deliver a high-bandwidth stream to a user’s workstation,” said Gibbons, project leader in the Integrations Sciences Division of ISI. “Many diverse components from local workstation parameters to backbone router configurations need to work together.”
The data was routed along high-bandwidth lines that are part of the Next Generation Internet program.
“In general, these networks connect to research institutions, don’t carry commercial traffic and have large backbones,” said Gibbons. “With more institutions connecting to NGI networks such as SuperNet and Abilene, we need intelligent, automatic tuning of these network parameters to allow researchers access to the bandwidth.”
The winners of the competition received a $10,000 prize and were awarded a trophy March 29 at the spring 2000 Internet2 Member Meeting in Washington, D.C. The competition will be repeated every six months at the Internet2 meetings.
“We hope this competition gets people thinking about enabling really revolutionary Internet applications,” said Jim Gray, a member of the President’s Information Technology Advisory Committee. “The limits on today’s Internet are no longer determined by raw bandwidth but rather by how well the different network components work together. The Internet2 Land Speed Record competition should encourage people to tackle this set of challenges.”
Details of the winning team’s entry, including source code, can be found at:
http://www.internet2.edu/lsr/ and at: http://www.ngi-supernet.org/
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