Not YouTube, HUGETube: Purdue researchers stream massive Internet video

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Purdue University researchers have streamed a nearly 10-gigabyte scientific animation of a 90000-atom cell structure over the Internet. The researchers believe the animation may be the largest non-compressed video sent over the Internet and viewed in ...
Purdue University researchers have streamed a nearly 10-gigabyte scientific animation of a 90,000-atom cell structure over the Internet. The researchers believe the animation may be the largest non-compressed video sent over the Internet and viewed in real time. (Purdue image/Meiqi Ren, Information Technology at Purdue)

Researchers at Purdue University's Envision Center for Data Perceptualization have transmitted what may be the largest movie ever streamed over the Internet.


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