Data Transfer record?

plandon · 2009-09-10, 21:20

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/09...n_v_broadband/
South African homing pigeon transmits 4GByte in 2 hours; 1 hour 8 minutes for the 60 mile travel and 1 hour to download the ramstick, winning a race against local broadband.

CADavis · 2009-09-11, 01:58

So I could just pile up my car with hundreds of terabytes of data on hard drives and drive anywhere in the US and beat any broadband in the country, but that wouldn't be very impressive would it? The latency alone would make me tear my hair out.

Batalov · 2009-09-11, 02:21

We are actually getting some sequencing data by way of the overnight FEDEX-ed hard drive. As I type, it is on a truck somewhere.
I wonder if anyone counted how many times this has already been discussed on this forum?

Uncwilly · 2009-09-11, 03:27

Much of the data from the south pole comes out on hard disks. The internet access is a very narrow pipe.

xilman · 2009-09-11, 08:24

Quote:

Originally Posted by CADavis

So I could just pile up my car with hundreds of terabytes of data on hard drives and drive anywhere in the US and beat any broadband in the country, but that wouldn't be very impressive would it? The latency alone would make me tear my hair out.

Never underestimate the bandwidth of a panel truck full of magtapes.

That's the version us old fogies learned. It's been updated since.

For some purposes, bandwidth is much more important than latency. For instance, when Bob Silverman needs to solve a matrix which is larger than he can run on his local resources he airmails me the data on CD. That particular communications channel is faster, cheaper and markedly more convenient than using our ADSL links.

Paul

Orgasmic Troll · 2009-09-11, 19:08

Quote:

Originally Posted by CADavis

So I could just pile up my car with hundreds of terabytes of data on hard drives and drive anywhere in the US and beat any broadband in the country, but that wouldn't be very impressive would it? The latency alone would make me tear my hair out.

The Internet is not something you just dump something on. It's not a truck. It's a series of tubes

Orgasmic Troll · 2009-09-11, 19:12

Quote:

Originally Posted by xilman

Never underestimate the bandwidth of a panel truck full of magtapes.

That's the version us old fogies learned. It's been updated since.

For some purposes, bandwidth is much more important than latency. For instance, when Bob Silverman needs to solve a matrix which is larger than he can run on his local resources he airmails me the data on CD. That particular communications channel is faster, cheaper and markedly more convenient than using our ADSL links.

Paul

As part of my job, I've had to download trade and quote data for the entire NYSE over periods of say, a month (one day is about 4 GB, zipped). I would LOVE it if we could just get a stack of DVD-Rs sent to us, it's a big PITA

cheesehead · 2009-09-12, 18:48

Quote:

Originally Posted by Batalov

I wonder if anyone counted how many times this has already been discussed on this forum?

ISTR that Knuth made the same observation about data transmission rates in TAOCP.

2009-09-10, 21:20	#1
plandon May 2009 Loughborough, UK 2²·11 Posts	Data Transfer record? http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/09...n_v_broadband/ South African homing pigeon transmits 4GByte in 2 hours; 1 hour 8 minutes for the 60 mile travel and 1 hour to download the ramstick, winning a race against local broadband. Last fiddled with by plandon on 2009-09-10 at 21:21

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Uncwilly 6809 > 6502 """"""""""""""""""" Aug 2003 101×103 Posts 9,787 Posts	Much of the data from the south pole comes out on hard disks. The internet access is a very narrow pipe.