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...
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...
by Robin Harris | Thursday, July 5, 2007 | Architecture, Clusters, Future Tech, Information Management |
The wily Googlers fooled me I thought the videos were supposed to be on YouTube – the video service they bought for $1.6 billion a few months ago. But NO! They’re on Google Video. I just figured that out. The good news: better quality on Google Video. The...
by Robin Harris | Thursday, June 28, 2007 | Architecture, Clusters, Future Tech |
Building REALLY big clusters You may be surprised to learn that Google DOESN’T build the world’s largest clusters. That honor goes to the government agencies who are Cluster File Systems Inc. customers. CFSI produces the Lustre File System, today’s...
by Robin Harris | Tuesday, June 26, 2007 | Architecture, Clusters, Future Tech, Information Management |
I survived Seattle’s “summer” weather And the Google-sponsored Seattle Conference on Scalability. It was like spending 10 hours trying to drink from a fire hose. Great stuff. I took notes on four of the sessions I attended. I would have taken more,...
by Robin Harris | Monday, June 11, 2007 | Architecture, Clusters, Future Tech, Information Management |
I’m pumped! Next week I’m flying to Seattle to attend a one day conference on scalability hosted by Google’s Kirkland office. It is a great set of presentations with leading edge practitioners. Here’s the agenda, presenters and edited...
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