• California Institute of Technology, transfer rates of 40 and 100 Gbps, new data transfer record paves way for high speed network technology, Caltech

    New data transfer record paves way for high speed network technology 14 December 2011

    The team transferred data in opposite directions at a combined rate of 186 gigabits per second (Gbps) in a wide-area network circuit at the SuperComputing 2011 (SC11) conference in Seattle during mid-November. The rate is equivalent to moving two million...

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    Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, Indian American, indian american appointed as the head of darpa in us, Caltech

    Indian American appointed as the Head of DARPA in US 13 July 2012

    Arati Prabhakar has made India proud after she was appointed the head of Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, DARPA. DARPA is American equivalent of DRDO in India, only differences being that the US counterpart is heavily funded with greater powers....

    Keywords: Caltech, DARPA, DRDO,

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    rock dating, Sample Analysis on Mars (SAM), rock dating on mars surface, Caltech

    Rock dating on Mars surface 13 December 2013

    First time in the history of mankind, researchers have predicted the age of a Martian rock successfully. The experiments are being performed on the Mars surface by a team of scientists led by geochemist Ken Farley of California Institute of...

    Keywords: NASA, Rocks on Mars, Curiosity rover, NASA

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