by Robin Harris | Thursday, July 26, 2007 | Architecture, Enterprise |
Power is probably the least understood/most widely used technology in computing. We don’t understand it, – what is a ground loop?- we rarely measure it, and its behavior is a mystery. Labels are no help either. My computer spec is “100-240 V...
by Robin Harris | Wednesday, July 25, 2007 | Architecture, Clusters, Future Tech, SAN, FC |
I’ve liked InfiniBand ever since I learned about it at YottaYotta in 2000. The switches are fast and cheap, the latency very low and the bandwidth – 6 GB/sec full-duplex at 12x – stunning. (Cisco has an excellent technical overview introduction...
by Robin Harris | Sunday, July 22, 2007 | Architecture, Future Tech |
Still wishing you’d made the Seattle Conference on Scalability last month? There’s a couple of upcoming East Coast meetings that look worthwhile. These are focused on compute intensive cluster computing, not Internet Data Center workloads, but many of the...
by Robin Harris | Friday, July 20, 2007 | Backup, Future Tech, Off-Topic, SOHO/SMB |
In a recent post, A Terabyte in the home? Hitachi’s CTO, the redoubtable Hu Yoshida writes I don’t believe there will be a market for home storage units. I believe internet service providers will provide the storage and data management for our personal data....
by Robin Harris | Friday, July 20, 2007 | Clusters |
I received a tip from a reader yesterday that Crosswalk, a company I wrote about last year, has closed its doors. I’ve called Crosswalk to confirm. I hope the tip is wrong, but many of the early players in the company have moved on already, which is rarely a...
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