the 160 GHZ chip

[AlecWest]

The first sentence of the article reads:

IBM will demonstrate a new chipset today that can download a high-definition movie in a single second, compared to the current time of 30 minutes or more.

Read the rest here:

http://www.mercurynews.com/breakingnews/ci_5523978

[TwistedLincoln]

IBM will demonstrate a new chipset today that can download a high-definition movie in a single second, compared to the current time of 30 minutes or more.

But download from what??

Sounds cool on paper, but find me a storage medium that can actually transfer data that fast...
(and no, 65 RAID 0 arrays of 15,000 rpm drives put together in another RAID 0 array isn't an acceptable answer).

[ron spencer]

yes...from what? nonsensical tests for non-real world...



hey....where's my tea?

[RLT69]

From the Article:

"The company said its optical transceiver chipset transfers information eight times as fast as currently available components...

The new chipset, which sends data at 160 Gigabits - or 160 billion bits of information per second - will be unveiled at the Optical Fiber Conference in Anaheim....

Optical networking speeds up communication by sending data as light pulses, instead of the traditional method of sending electrons over wires."

Thus I believe a large part of the improvement is moving the information around the network. The end user may still have a bottle neck as you pointed out. However SATA II can transfer data at 3 Gigabits/sec and 6 Gbps are in the spec.

[SatStorm]

internet is not the only net you know. There are also the networks of the cellphones. 2G, 3G and 4G (now on paper). Those networks can transfer data too.

I can imagine 4G transfer speeds and this technology combined. Then hook your cell phone (or on something like today's USB memoery sticks) to a TV Screen (with a built in player) and watch.

Those things ain't far in the future. In 10 years there gonna be reality. IMO.

[DereX888]

IBM will demonstrate a new chipset today that can download a high-definition movie in a single second, compared to the current time of 30 minutes or more.

But download from what??

internet2 or other nonaccessible to public networks that already exist for quite long time.

Apparently theyre not using any copper connection

Sounds cool on paper, but find me a storage medium that can actually transfer data that fast...
(and no, 65 RAID 0 arrays of 15,000 rpm drives put together in another RAID 0 array isn't an acceptable answer).

whats wrong with raid arrays that it isnt acceptable answer to you?
Thats the only viable solution IMO

[ViRaL1]

IBM will demonstrate a new chipset today that can download a high-definition movie in a single second, compared to the current time of 30 minutes or more.

But download from what??

Sounds cool on paper, but find me a storage medium that can actually transfer data that fast...
(and no, 65 RAID 0 arrays of 15,000 rpm drives put together in another RAID 0 array isn't an acceptable answer).

Meh. Magnetic media is so last millennium.

[SCDVD]

This is just a glimpse into the future of an element of system architectural technology in development. The development process of various system elements never moves forward in complete sync with other system elements that need to work with it. I suppose when the guy who invented the wheel showed it around, there were those who said it was useless because there was no way to hook it to a wagon until the guy came along who invented the axle......

I remember a similar negative reaction from a self anointed expert and system architecture critic. It was back in the 1200/2400 baud modem days. There was an article about a future comm architecture that resembled what became DSL. This bozo with his own version of "great authority" made it clear that it was impossible to move data more than three or four times the then used speeds of 1200 and 2400 baud over a phone line. In retrospect, the thing that makes his pontification so funny was his smug arrogance when he made it clear that anyone who though differently was an idiot. DSL anyone? DSL has become so commonplace that when you mention dial up, some peoples say - what's that?

But the pieces come together in due time. Imagine back in the early 70's, when the boast-worthy speed of a PC was 4.77 Mhz. , what the reaction of many would have been at the notion of a 3.2 Ghz. PC! That's 681 times the clock speed alone; the actual speed difference is actually much more because of the improvements in the buss width, caching and the overall system architecture. The continued advancement in system performance and speed is not going to stop.

So be careful of your guffaws. Your reaction now will be funny to those who recall it in a FEW years.

[edDV]

Current bleeding edge is around 10Gb/s for local networking.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fibre_Channel

[SCDVD]

Current bleeding edge is around 10Gb/s for local networking.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fibre_Channel

Circa 2007 - Sounds like a good number.
__________________________________________________ __________

This is kind of an open ended question but fill in the blank on this:

Circa 2017 - Current bleeding edge is around ______Gb/s for local networking.

[edDV]

Current bleeding edge is around 10Gb/s for local networking.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fibre_Channel

Circa 2007 - Sounds like a good number.
__________________________________________________ __________

This is kind of an open ended question but fill in the blank on this:

Circa 2017 - Current bleeding edge is around ______Gb/s for local networking.

And that is peak, not sustained rate.

[LSchafroth]

So...will that outperform my Atari 1040ST at 8Mhz? 1Mb RAM?

LS

[KBeee]

Hmmmmmmm...
Most UK ISP's have download limits. Even the "unlimited" ones have secret "Fair Use Policy" cutoffs, one of which was recently found out to be as low as 5GB per month!
So that'd take about 0.25 seconds to use up

[edDV]

Hmmmmmmm...
Most UK ISP's have download limits. Even the "unlimited" ones have secret "Fair Use Policy" cutoffs, one of which was recently found out to be as low as 5GB per month!
So that'd take about 0.25 seconds to use up

Excellent point.

[DereX888]

Hmmmmmmm...
Most UK ISP's have download limits. Even the "unlimited" ones have secret "Fair Use Policy" cutoffs, one of which was recently found out to be as low as 5GB per month!
So that'd take about 0.25 seconds to use up

Excellent point.

Dudes, it so doesn't make sense, gee.
If some ISP will decide to provide such connection and speed (or even a fraction of what we are talking about) obviously the downloads limit have to be raised accordingly as well

[SCDVD]

DereX888 - These jokers are doing a great job of illustrating my point. Sounds like the kind of spew that another connectivity "expert" was uttering to "explain" to all the "dummies" around them that 2400-baud was the "bleeding edge". Some people just think small. They literally can't grasp advanced concepts. They try to cover their inadequacy by sounding like an "expert" but this actually only makes them look even dumber.

[DereX888]

DereX888 - These jokers are doing a great job of illustrating my point. Sounds like the kind of spew that another connectivity "expert" was uttering to "explain" to all the "dummies" around them that 2400-baud was the "bleeding edge". Some people just think small. They literally can't grasp advanced concepts. They try to cover their inadequacy by sounding like an "expert" but this actually only makes them look even dumber.

well, what can i say... i prefer thinking people vs point illustrators...

[Alan69]

IBM will demonstrate a new chipset today that can download a high-definition movie in a single second, compared to the current time of 30 minutes or more.

But download from what??

Sounds cool on paper, but find me a storage medium that can actually transfer data that fast...

Another system of this type of course. That further offline storage may still be slower is irrelevant, once the data is in 50 or 500 or 5000 people could download it in very short order. Peer 2 Peer with everyone able to transfer at these speeds would be near instant with current files..