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Subject: [CAnet - news] Must read - radically new data transfer
protocol - SNDTP
Date: Wed, 27 May 2009 09:01:58 -0400
From: Bill St. Arnaud <bill.st.arnaud@canarie.ca>
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From International Science Grid Week
http://www.isgtw.org/?pid=1001810
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<http://www.isgtw.org/images/2009/Snail_L.jpg>
The snail-based system in feed-forward action. /Image courtesy Herbert
Bishko. Photo on front page courtesy Lysanne Ooteman, stock.exchng /
If you think you have problems with the sometimes slow pace at which
information travels from one computer to another, then consider the
solution offered by this scientific paper: "Snail-based Data Transfer
Protocol
<http://improbable.com/pages/airchives/paperair/volume11/v11i4/sluggish-data-11-4.pdf>."
It describes an experiment in data transfer using real, genuine, live
snails, along with a "lettuce-based guidance system."
No lie.
The papers' authors, Shimon Schocken, dean of Efi Arazi School of
Computer Science <http://www.flatstories.com/arazi/arazi.htm> Herzliya,
and Revital Ben-David-Zaslow of the Department of Zoology at Tel Aviv
University <http://www.tau.ac.il/lifesci/departments/zoology/>, Israel,
reported that their experiment delivered a 37 million bits-per-second
<http://www.isgtw.org/?pid=1001622#B> data transfer rate — faster than ADSL.
[….]
The paper does admit to a drawback: "In some regions, most notably
France, culinary habits may pose a denial-of-service (DOS) problem."
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