Download a year's Bollywood films in 90 minutes
Found on The Inquirer on Wednesday, 15 February 2006
A week long experiment to run an international scientific computing grid under working conditions has resulted in sustained transfer rates of a gigabyte per second.
Tony Doyle, leader of the UK particle physics grid, said that corresponds to transferring a DVD worth of scientific data every five seconds. "At these rates it would take 25 days to transfer the nearly 400,000 films listed at IMDB.com and only an hour and a half to transfer the 1,000 flms produced each year by Mumbai-based Bollywood."
RAL works with sites at UK universisties to form GridPP, the UK particle physics grid, consisting of over 4,000 CPUs and 250 terabytes of storage.
Now that would be a fileserving service.