Researchers Stream 10GB Internet Video
Researchers at the Purdue University have streamed a nearly 10GB scientific animation of a 90,000-atom cell structure over the internet. The video can be the largest non-compressed video sent over the internet and viewed in real time.
The 2-minue video shows a scientific visualization of a cell structure from a bacterium. The video was streamed at the rate of 7.5Gbps with a peak transfer rate of 8.4Gbps. At those whooping speeds, the researchers could have streamed 12 movie DVDs in the same time.
The video was not compressed and it was not using any expensive equipment, as the equipment could have been purchased for less than $100,000.
Researchers believe that the technology could prove to be a boon for viewing massive images from the Hubble Telescope or could become the future of entertainment industry.
The streamed video measured 4096 x 3072 pixels, which is an equivalent of a matrix of 12 17-inch computer monitors with three monitors high and four monitors wide.
The project was done in collaboration with Apple Computer, Advanced Clustering Technologies Inc. and useours.com.
Researchers said that as the speed of the disks was slower than the network speed so they had to simulate the transfer before the actual transfer which required multiple data readers sending the video and also multiple data readers receiving the video.
To check out the video CLICK HERE (Do check your Hard-disk before downloading it though...!)
Via: physorg
