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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. Marketroid sense is tingling by Bastian · · Score: 5, Interesting

    ncludes a 224-gigabyte Solid State Disk (SSD) with a data transfer rate of 80 gigabytes per
    second

    can hold 27 copies of the Human Genome and transfer data at a rate equivalent to 100
    Human Genomes per second

    Ok, so can it hold more data than it can transfer in a second, or can it transfer more data in a second than it can hold? Pick one, boys.

  2. -OT- usefulness of bioinformatics by jonbrewer · · Score: 4, Interesting

    (to diverge ever so slightly)

    "Bioinformatics is the dot-com boom all over again..."

    I think not.

    There is quite a market for bioinformatics. My employer spends around 5 billion USD a year on pharma R+D. Much of that money is used in traditional "brute-force" type attacks of screening many compounds against many targets.

    There is tremendous potential for savings through bioinformatics, and the evidence is working its way through pharma pipelines as we speak.

    While there may be as much hype around bioinformatics, the field is solving a genuine problem for a mature, well-funded industry, unlike the dot-com book which speclated on products many didn't want with money that didn't exist.