The graph shows the aggregate bandwidth utilized by the team during the challenge. The vertical axis is in Gbps the horizontal is wall time. Each band corresponds to the transfer rate for a particular network link. FIU's contribution corresponds to the pink/purpleish band at the very center between 0 and 7 Gbps.

In partnership with Caltech the University of Florida and other universities and laboratories across the world a team of students and faculty from FIU's department of physics, has won the Super Computing bandwidth challenge for 2009. This year's bandwidth challenge pitted contestants to see who could transfer the largest amount of real data from disks to and from disks located at the show room floor. The FIU physics team which included undergrad Justin Kraft, joined the contest in part to help commission FIU's new 10 Gigabit per second network infrastructure and to learn how and/or if data transfers at multi-Gbps could be achieved from the new campus network. The local computing hardware used are part of FIU's Tier3 center which is normally used in the analysis and processing of Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) data. The CMS experiment is an LHC experiment which just today recoreded its frist collision event. The Tier3 center is located in our very own CP 283. The wining entry, entitled "Moving Towards Terabit/sec Scientific Dataset Transfers: the LHC Challenge" demonstrated a sustained aggregate rate of 115 Gigabits per second over the hour long contest. The FIU Tier3 center's contribution alone amounted to a disk to disk outbound rate of about 6.3 Gbps.

added 11/23/09