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Warp speed Data Transfer (WDT) is an embeddedable library (and command line tool) aiming to transfer data between 2 systems as fast as possible over multiple TCP paths.
8 mentions on Hacker News by 8 people: 2 stories, 6 comments · first 2015-07-21 · latest 2026-02-02
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…bandwidth not latency) and as efficient as possible (low CPU/memory/resources utilization) 1. https://github.com/facebook/wdt
comment by edvardsire · 2026-02-02 · in 4x faster network file sync with rclone (vs rsync) (2025) -
…be my go-to right now if someone asked me for a fast point-to-point data transfer solution. [1] https://github.com/facebook/wdt
comment by AitchEmArsey · 2022-03-26 · in How we built a new, fast file transfer protocol -
…when there's only one TCP path. This has been my go-to tool to transfer files on the network. 0: https://github.com/facebook/wdt
comment by RMPR · 2021-03-08 · in Show HN: wcp – a reimplementation of cp using io_uring. With a nice progress bar -
WDT from Facebook - https://github.com/facebook/wdt/ We use it for copying hundreds of TiB's regularly, occasionally over a PiB.
comment by colabiblen · 2020-09-02 · in Ask HN: What is your favorite method of sending large files? -
Facebook open sourced WDT, which seems to have the same goals: https://github.com/facebook/wdt
comment by electrum · 2019-12-30 · in A Desperate Plea for a Free Software Alternative to Aspera (2018) -
…for opensource there is: http://uftp-multicast.sourceforge.net/ http://tsunami-udp.sourceforge.net/ https://github.com/facebook/wdt And a myriad of others. Multi stream TCP is fairly simple as the application doesn't have to deal with rate…
comment by KaiserPro · 2015-08-03 · in Research Scientists to Use Network Much Faster Than Internet