World
premiere for turbocharged data speed: industry and researchers use applications
and IT via 400 Gigabit connection
- State-of-the-art technology deployed for
compute-intensive tasks
- Future-proof data networks for the cloud, social media
and big data
50
Gigabytes of data per second across vast distances: A collaboration of industry
and research co-managed by T-Systems and Alcatel-Lucent, Introduced at this year’s
International Supercomputing Conference in Leipzig a collaboration of industry
and research co-managed by T-Systems and
Alcatel-Lucent showed the way ahead. Optical data transmission at top
performance levels, combined with high-speed flash memory technologies and a
distributed high-performance file system,
allow applications to communicate with one another using a 400 Gbit/s data path
in a world premiere. The demonstration proves that data-intensive projects can be distributed and
processed effectively even over great distances. It also opens up new
opportunities for data security in the event of a disaster.
Developments
such as cloud computing, social media and big data are driving the expansion in
worldwide data traffic. According to forecasts, the core Internet
infrastructure will have to deal with data volumes in 2015 that are ten times
higher than in 2010. In turn, this demands more powerful data networks. In the
project, high-performance connections are used to exchange data between
Dresden, Munich and Hamburg for two computing-intensive
tasks involving distributed databases and multi-step
data processing in the area of climate research and turbine development. With
this approach, close cooperation between distant data centers is being tested
under real conditions, along with new potential applications for large
bandwidths. The progress achieved to date represents a major milestone for
future-proof data networks.
The
project participants are Alcatel-Lucent, Barracuda Networks, Bull,
Clustervision, German Aerospace Center (DLR), EMC, IBM, Leibniz Supercomputing
Centre, Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, Mellanox, Garching Computing
Center of the Max Planck Society, Telekom Innovation Laboratories, T-Systems, Center for Information Services and
High Performance Computing at TU Dresden.
About
Deutsche Telekom
Deutsche Telekom is one of the world’s leading integrated telecommunications
companies with 133 million mobile customers, 32 million fixed-network lines and
more than 17 million broadband lines (as of March 31, 2013). The Group provides
products and services for the fixed network, mobile communications, the
Internet and IPTV for consumers, and ICT solutions for business customers and
corporate customers. Deutsche Telekom is present in around 50 countries and has
230,000 employees worldwide. The Group generated revenues of EUR 58.2 billion
in the 2012 financial year – more than half of it outside Germany (as of
December 31, 2012).
About T-Systems
Drawing on a global infrastructure of data centers and networks, T-Systems operates information and communication
technology (ICT) systems for multinational corporations and public sector
institutions. T-Systems provides integrated
solutions for the networked future of business and society. The company's some
52,700 employees combine industry expertise and ICT innovations to add
significant value to customers’ core business all over the world.
T-Systems generated revenue of around EUR
10 billion in the 2012 financial year.