Re: Interesting.cn

On Mon, 18 Aug 2008 21:50:03 +0000 (UTC), brian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Brian
Kantor) wrote:
128 more servers for an experiment.
You've got how much to spend? How about we network some tamagotchis?

Mike Andrews <mikea@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
ThanksLetsNotOK?

Well, it's a proof-of-concept lashup, so I'll probably just use some
consumer-grade stuff. Maybe mini-ITX boxes or something. I have an
idea... Good thing there's a machine shop next door.

I love kludging.

One of the grad students gave a paper the other day discussing
multi-wavelength fibre with a theoretical 30-something terabit
capacity. I almost choked on the free pizza. I'd love to see
that working before I retire.

Hm, well, there are functional[1] commercial implementations that run 128
colours of 10 Gb each over a single fibre already, aren't there? That's
already terabit+. And 100GE is already at least a draft standard, which
gets into the 10Tib range. Bandwidth is not quite cheap yet, but it's
getting there.


Jasper

[1] For values of, etc.
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