SLAC Computer Networking: Old Announcements, Hot Topics, News Items
2006
11/29/06 -
Rector of Pakistani University Visits SLAC
from SLAC Today.
10/9/06 -
Bandwidth Challenges and World Records
audio, video & synchronized slides (Quicktime, 128.5MB)
10/9/06 -
Quantifying the Digital Divide from an Internet Point of View
audio, video & synchronized slides (Quicktime, 88.8MB)
4/6/06 -
Physics Online and Overseas
from SLAC Today.
2/13/06 -
A Better Internet" news story from ComputerWorld.
2005
11/23/05 -
Bandwidth Challenge Results from SlashDot
SC|05 Bandwidth Challenge, SLAC Interaction Point.
11/05 -
Bringing the Internet to China
Symmetry Magzine.
11/8/05 -
Brit Boffins aim to Beat LAN speed record from vnunet.com
9/2/05 -
SLAC's participation in the SC05 Bandwidth Challenge
7/5/05 -
Our broadband "out of phase" from Australian IT
6/24/05 -
Global Internet Analysis: Australia possibly out of phase
UNE News and Events
6/22/05 -
Pinger Quantifies the Digital Divide from Science Grid This Week.
2004
11/24/04 -
Internet Speed Quadrupled by International Team During 2004 Bandwidth Challenge
10/27/04 -
101Gbits/s! SLAC/Caltech/U Manchester/FNAL/CERN SC2004 Bandwidth Challenge,
5/17/04 -
10th anniversary of SLAC/HENP bringing the Internet to China, from
ComputerWorld, also see
the Ten Years Ago, SLAC
Brought the Internet to China from the SLAC Interaction
Point, and
Networking with China, SLAC-PUB-6478, 1994.
4/2/04 -
Networking: The Next Generation
3/16/04 -
Better TCP Invented at NCSU and evaluated by SLAC,
see also
Light Reading,
Slashdot
HPCwire.
<2003
6/12/03 -
Developing countries and the global science web, an ICTP/SLAC article
from the December CERN Courier.
12/10/03 -
Caltech, SLAC, and LANL Set Network Performance Marks
also see
Web site
12/2/03 - SLAC to display
PingER project at SIS-Forum, Geneva under
Fundamental Science and Enabling Technologies Theme.
9-13 Dec '03.
12/1/03 -
Bandwidth Challenge Teams Push Networking Performance Envelope at SC2003 Conference -
Sustained 23 Gigabits Per Second Sets New Record
11/23/03 -
Caltech/SLAC/LANL/U Manchester "Bandwidth Lust" team captures the
SuperComputing 2003 maximum bandwidth Bandwidth Challenge award
with 23.21Gbits/s, transferring
over 6.6 PBytes in less than 50 minutes.
8/4/03 - High Speeds
are good for Guinness, from DoE Pulse magazine.
7/20/03 -
Guinness World Record for Internet2 Land Speed Record
6/10/03 -
State of Network Monitoring and Analysis in the US
4/21/03 -
CENIC "Road to Ten Gigabit" Award to Caltech, CERN, SLAC & LANL
4/14/03 -
Record transfer of Data between CERN and California,
from CERN Bulletin
3/29/03 -
Internet2 Land Speed Record broken again
by team from Caltech, CERN, SLAC and LANL.
3/27/03 -
Software breaks data transfer record from Nature.
3/19/03 -
Caltech computer scientists develop FAST protocol to speed up Internet
1/21/03 -
New Intercontinental Internet Performance Records Set in Internet2 Land Speed Record Competition
2001
10/02/01 -
Appletalk Routing has been shutdown as of 10/01/01
2000
12/17/00 -
Wireless Networking at SLAC
10/31/00 - SLAC
Phone Switch Upgrade - October 2000
08/18/00 - SLAC
ISDN Service, phase out 09/30/01.
06/06/00 - RIP to be removed
05/23/00 - Central VMS support to terminate at end of 2001
03/23/00 - SLAC Phone System Upgrade