by Robin Harris | Sunday, August 24, 2008 | Architecture, Clusters, Enterprise |
Jim Gray, in his paper Distributed Computing Economics, (pdf) noted that there is a rough price parity between 10 bytes of network traffic and a megabyte of disk bandwidth. One of his conclusions: computing has to be as close to the data as possible in order to avoid...
by Robin Harris | Thursday, June 26, 2008 | Architecture, Clusters, Future Tech |
The parallel computing/manycore initiatives may be missing the point. The challenge of manycore computing is burn up as many CPU cycles as possible doing things that we don’t do today because the computational cost is too great. Making existing apps go faster is...
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 | 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 | Thursday, April 24, 2008 | Architecture, Clusters, Video |
A video networking company in StorageMojo? Omneon isn’t new to StorageMojo. Their price list has been on price list page since January 2007. Their booth was about 50 yards from Isilon’s and EMC’s and it was a madhouse each time I walked by. Partly...
by Robin Harris | Wednesday, April 23, 2008 | Clusters, Video |
Isilon at NAB Stopped by the Isilon booth a couple of times. Traffic seemed steady. Isilon held their meetings away from the booth, so it didn’t have the level of activity of, say, Omneon’s booth. NAB is their biggest show of the year and the market where...
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