Data sorting world record falls: Computer scientists break terabyte sort barrier in 60 seconds
To break the terabyte barrier for the Indy Minute Sort, the University of California, San Diego computer science researchers built a system made up of 52 commodity servers. Credit: UC San Diego / Daniel Kane
Computer scientists from the University of California, San Diego broke "the terabyte barrier" - and a world record - when they sorted more than one terabyte of data in just 60 seconds.
To break the terabyte barrier for the Indy Minute Sort, the University of California, San Diego computer science researchers built a system made up of 52 commodity servers. Credit: UC San Diego / Daniel Kane
Computer scientists from the University of California, San Diego broke "the terabyte barrier" - and a world record - when they sorted more than one terabyte of data in just 60 seconds. During this 2010 "Sort Benchmark" competition - the "World Cup of data sorting" - the computer scientists from the UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering also tied a world record for fastest data sorting rate. They sorted one trillion data records in 172 minutes - and did so using just a quarter of the computing resources of the other record holder.
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