New Fastest Speed For A Network? Researchers Were Blasting Away 186 Gigabits of Data Per Second!
Vinh Nguyen
Posted on December 14th, 2011
According to Cnet‘s article “Supercomputer network blasts torrent of data,” various experts in various fields with the same goal in mind, faster network, had accomplished a new feat together in blasting data across their special network at 186 Gigabit per second. It all took place at SuperComputing Conference of 2011. Imagining this, by uploading and downloading single sided double layer DVD data (8.7 GB) at this speed, you would get 2.489 DVDs of 8.7 GB size per second; 149.34 DVDs of 8.7 GB size per minute; 8,960.4 DVDs of 8.7 GB size per hour; 215,049.6 DVDs of 8.7 GB size per day. How about Blu-ray disk of 50 GB type? You would get 0.433 Blu-ray disk of 50 GB size per second; 25.98 Blu-ray disks…
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