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 (1,000 gigabytes or 1 million megabytes) 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.