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Cray's New Solid State Storage

Posted by timothy on from the please-of-please-trickle-down-to-me dept.

Sivar writes: "Cray, a well known vendor of extremely fast supercomputing hardware, has introduced a storage system with a 224 GB capacity. The large size seems impressive, but the device can also transfer an unprecedented 80GB(!!) every second. That's more bandwidth than the main memory of most servers, and it's just for storage. For comparison's sake, a typical dual channel DDR motherboard has a bandwidth capacity of barely 4.2GB/sec." Yow.

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  1. Hardware review by mESSDan · · Score: 5, Funny
    C'mon, where are the obligatory Quake3/UT FPS statistics? I want to know if I'm going to get 1,000,045 FPS or 1,000,0053 FPS. Don't they read Tom's Hardware?

    Heh

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    1. Re:Hardware review by realdpk · · Score: 4, Funny

      Yeah, and if it was on Tom's Hardware, they'd include some practically useless commentary on how it is 5% faster if you overclock it. Woo hoo!

      :)

      (on that note, is there a hardware site out there that does not have this bizarre overclocking "bent"?)

    2. Re:Hardware review by keiferb · · Score: 2, Funny

      True, but that 5% would be equivalent to a couple of pretty beefy desktop machines in this case. =)

    3. Re:Hardware review by neoform · · Score: 2, Funny

      imagine you had a monitor capable of displaying those frame rates... i'd imagine you would be bald in 3 minutes..

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  2. Re:Super storage, super price. by doooras · · Score: 5, Funny

    yeah, and computers are just arrangements of existing silicon, copper, aluminum....

  3. Hmmm... by Stinky+Boy · · Score: 3, Funny

    None on EBay yet...

    Well, looks like I'll have to wait a few weeks.

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  4. Slashdotted???? by TheBracket · · Score: 2, Funny

    Please tell me that cray.com isn't slashdotted. Oh, how the mighty have fallen!

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  5. /.'ed by BlackSol · · Score: 4, Funny

    anyone else find it hilarious that the site is slashdotted?

    I know its probably hosted by someone else but come on just the idea that we slashdotted a cray is awesome :)

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  6. Re:slashdot effect by myz24 · · Score: 4, Funny

    I can hear it now...

    /.: "What kind of server do you run?"

    C: The new super duper Cray with the new 224 gig storage system moving data around at 80GB!!

    /.: "Whats your connection to the net like?"
    C: 256kb DSL line, why?

    /.: "...."

  7. Re:Transfers more than it can store... by taniwha · · Score: 4, Funny

    and transfer data at a rate equivalent to 100 Human Genomes per second.

    Yeah but then so can a fully laden school bus ....

  8. So, how many by geekoid · · Score: 4, Funny

    Library of congress is that...

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  9. Re:New Measurement System? by glwtta · · Score: 3, Funny

    that is the absolute worst reference "unit" I've ever seen! Depending on how you define "human genome" it's anywhere between several hundred MB to several hundred GB. Can we just go back to the more reliable and accepted units, like the LOC (Libraries of Congress)?

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  10. Re:Transfers more than it can store... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    I could do better than that with an ordinary catapult and a supply of testes.

    SPLAT!

  11. Re:Extra storage? by glwtta · · Score: 5, Funny

    hell, I can fill up 224 gigs - people actually doing useful things with it certainly will be able to.

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  12. Transferring my genome by Joel+Ironstone · · Score: 5, Funny

    I can transmit my whole genome in a few seconds, While the silicone guys find ways of speeding this benchmark up, I'm looking for ways of slowing it down.

    1. Re:Transferring my genome by Aceticon · · Score: 5, Funny

      The "natural" way of transmiting the human genome (at least for half the human beings) is high speed but also high latency - it takes a while to start it up (how much depends on the individual) but when it starts it's a burst of genomic information.

      Strangely enough it's all contained on packets with a size of 1/2 human genome...

  13. Re:New Measurement System? by pboulang · · Score: 2, Funny

    More reliable and acceptable units would have to be in football fields. Of course, I measure my velocity in nano-parsec per micro-fortnights, but that's not a bad unit. I suppose for measuring the number of bits, one would need a good conversion for surface area as in GB per sq in... thus 240 GB could be construed as something like 2 micro-football fields.

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  14. Power requirements in JDU? by UsonianAutomatic · · Score: 2, Funny

    Ok, if we're going to measure capacity in terms of Human Genomes, I want to know how many Jelly Donut Units per hour it takes to power this thing.

    "From the intensity of the flame we can deduce that this was a particularly delicious donut."

  15. Actually... by Chazmati · · Score: 4, Funny

    The siliCONE guys might help to shave a couple seconds off your time. It's the siliCON guys who do the computer thing.

  16. Human genome transfer by wringles · · Score: 3, Funny

    "System Can Transfer 100 Copies of Human Genome Per Second"

    Big deal, I can transfer O( 1e6 ) half-copies of the human genome in less than five minutes.

  17. tingling ? by Erris · · Score: 3, Funny
    Marketroid: Clever observation. Of course it all depends on which Genome we are talking about really. Would that be an African or a European swallow?

    Bastian: I don't knooooowwWWWWWW, AAAHHhhhhhh! Bastian is trown from the clif by an an invisible hand.

    Those struck by lightening and survive fear tingling sensations.

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