2003 Internet2 Land Speed Records

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On February 27-28, 2003, over a Terabyte of data was transferred in less than an hour by S. Ravot of Caltech between the Level(3) Gateway in Sunnyvale, near SLAC, and CERN.

The data passed through the TeraGrid Router at StarLight from memory to memory as a single TCP/IP stream at an average rate of 2.38 Gbits/s (using large windows and 9KByte "jumbo frames").

This beat the former record by a factor of approximately 2.5 and used the US-CERN link at 99% efficiency.

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Contest Rules High Performance 10GE testbed 10GE End-to-end Performance Tests Submission to Internet2 , March 14, 2003 Response from Internet2 Award Ceremony Trophies History of the record Previous Record CENIC On the Road to Ten Gigabit Award for: Biggest Fastest in the West" Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) Next Generation Internet Protocol (IPv6) Marks Shattered in Internet2 Land Speed Record Competition, June 26, 2003.	InfoWorld, March 17, 2003 Networld Fusion, March 17, 2003 ITWorld.com, March 17, 2003 IDG, March 17, 2003 LightReading, March 21, 2003 Nature March 27, 2003 CERN Bulletin April 14, 2003 TechTV, May 20, 2003 Caltech and CERN IPv6 announcement June 26, 2003 Clemson University, July 22, 2003 LANL press release, July 24, 2003. Internet speed record in Guinness World Records Book HPCwire, July 25, 2003. SLAC Quick News, July 25, 2003. DoE Pulse Magazine High Speeds are good for Guinness, Aug 4, 2003	High Performance WAN Testbed: Experiences and Results presented at CHEP03, Mar. 26 '03 Breaking the Internet2 Land Speed Record - Twice presented by Les Cottrell at Ricoh International and Network Physics, April 2003 CENIC Road to Ten Gigabit: Biggest, Fastest in the West Award speech invited talk given by Les Cottrell at the CENIC 2003 meeting, Santa Barbara May 2003. Achieving Record Speed Trans-Atlantic End-to-end TCP Throughput, presentation by Les Cottrell at the NANOG meeting Salt Lake City, June 2003.