Seattle Scalability Conference quick take
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 impressionistic than...
Off to Seattle
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 production backpack and I'll try to...
Roadrunner’s backing store
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 Roadrunner's ~3,250...
EMC’s vision for Pi Corp
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 Valley standards. But Nick is...
Seattle Scalability Conference v.2
On Saturday June 14th Google will host the 2nd Seattle Conference on Scalability. I'm planning to be there. Interesting topics Given the dual-track format, I may not be able to see everything I'd like. Here's what looks cool to me: CARMEN: a Scalable Science Cloud....
IBRIX CTO talks segmented file system
What's in a name? I've started doing some work for IBRIX. Despite looking at their web site several times I'd never understood what, exactly, they did. Turns out they make a cluster file system. One good enough for Dell, EMC and HP to resell. As part of our get...
EMC: flash replaces high-end disks in 2010
Greetings from Las Vegas And EMC World 2008. Dave Donatelli, president of EMC's storage business, presented to the press room this morning. His most interesting statement was that flash drives will have cost-parity with, and therefore replace, high-end rotating...
Where’s Maui?
Just sat through EMC CEO Joe Tucci's keynote for EMC World 2008. Conspicuous by its absence: Maui; the software piece of the Hulk/Maui global data repository [see EMC's Maui and everybody else]. Joe promised Hulk/Maui in 7 months last November. EMC showed the hardware...
Anatomy of an outage
Getting rid of the hacked files and spam links wasn't the end of it Dreamhost notified me that the load on my server was excessive and they'd disabled StorageMojo. Yikes! Had I been hacked again? DDOS attack? What? Building the correct mental model In short order I...
Seagate’s head-settling time?
First it was the bogus "national security" argument against a Chinese buy-out of Seagate. Now it's suing STEC over solid state drives (SSD). Has William Watkins, Seagate's CEO, jumped the shark? STEC said, per legal SOP, that the suit was "without merit." After...
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