It's not the Olympics. It's not the Kentucky Derby. It's not the Indy 500.
But winning the race to send data across the world is a scientist's dream. The contest doesn't award the winner with money and fame. Instead, it awards the winner and everyone else with state-of-the-art computer performance and a step towards the next generation Internet.
Jim Gray from the Bay Area Research Center (BARC) and Harvey Newman from CalTech will present the results of the latest world record-breaking race for speed on the Internet2 at the WinHec conference.
Scientists from CERN and Cal Tech led the winning team, with help from Intel, S2io, AMD, and Microsoft. The operating system used to achieve the new record was Windows Server 64-bit. Ahmed Talat, from the Windows Server group, worked with scientists from several institutions and universities to configure the Windows Server 2003 system. Gray also worked with the team that set the record on February 22.
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