Briefs

Chicago, IL. November 27, 2006

A team of experts from the University of Illinois at Chicago's National Center for Data Mining (NCDM), Northwestern University and Johns Hopkins University won the 7th annual Bandwidth Challenge held November 16th in Tampa, FL at SC06, the international conference for high performance computing, networking and storage.

They transported the 1.3 TB Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data (SDSS) from the University of Illinois at Chicago to the SC 06 floor at Tampa with a sustained data transfer rate of 8Gb/s over a 10Gb/s link, and a peak rate of 9.18Gb/s.

This was a major new milestone that demonstrated that it is now practical for working scientists to transfer large data sets from disk to disk over long distances from 10 Gb/s network.

For more details, see sdss.ncdm.uic.edu.