by Robin Harris | Tuesday, July 31, 2007 | Architecture, Enterprise |
Cumulative distribution functions The paper describes three large-scale Google workloads: Websearch: high request throughput and large data processing requirements for each request – IIRC 70-100 MB of data searched per request – with variable demand by...
by Robin Harris | Friday, July 27, 2007 | Architecture, Enterprise |
A reader wrote me a note that asks a question that I think is on the minds of many data center folks. He said it well himself, so I’ll quote liberally, starting with the compliment. I really enjoy reading your blogs! One thing I’ve notices in your blog,...
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 | Tuesday, July 10, 2007 | Architecture, Clusters, Future Tech, Information Management |
An alert reader sent this in as a comment this morning. Thank you! As of Jul 10, 1:00am PDT, 10 of the talks have been published (including the Lustre and Verisign ones). Searching for “seattle conference on scalability” on google video seems to return...
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