by Robin Harris | Monday, June 16, 2008 | Future Tech |
Gary Orenstein has published a podcast of a discussion we had a couple of weeks ago about cloud computing. Cloudy days on the hype cycle Cloud computing and storage is still climbing the hype cycle. Remember client-server computing? It was going to change the world....
by Robin Harris | Monday, June 16, 2008 | Architecture, Clusters, Future Tech |
I’m relaxing in beautiful Port Townsend, Washington today, under the gray skies of the coldest June in almost 100 years. The fire in the wood-burning stove and Frank’s strong coffee provide the good cheer. Temporal compare My comments are more...
by Robin Harris | Thursday, June 12, 2008 | Off-Topic |
That’s right: the second Seattle Conference on Scalability – sponsored by Google – is this Saturday [see a couple of posts back for more info]. I’m also attending the bonus meeting in Fremont Friday evening. I’m bringing the video...
by Robin Harris | Wednesday, June 11, 2008 | Architecture, Clusters, Disk, NAS, IP, iSCSI, SAN, FC |
I wrote a short piece on ZDnet about Los Alamos National Labs new Cell Broadband Engine based supercomputer, Roadrunner. With ~14k v.3 Cell processors – an earlier version powers the PS3 game console – and another ~7k dual core Opterons, the...
by Robin Harris | Tuesday, June 3, 2008 | Future Tech, Information Management, SOHO/SMB |
Consumerization is the ultimate scale-out application I spoke to EMC’s CTO, Jeff Nick, at EMC world and video’d his comments. I didn’t know what to expect, as some past EMC CTO’s have been lightweights whose insight wasn’t up to Silicon...
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