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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. Running a Samba server... by Sivar · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    To get the full bandwidth utilization out of one of these over a network, you would need at least 640 gigabit ethernet connections, and even that would work only if the cards transfered data at their peak theoretical bandwidth. In reality, you'd likely need a bare minimum of 800.

    That'd be a great headline for Samba.org...

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    Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes. --E. W. Dijkstra
  2. Cray's site... by kypper · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    According to netcraft,
    "The site www.cray.com is running Apache/1.3.22 (Unix) mod_ssl/2.8.5 OpenSSL/0.9.6b on Solaris 8."

    That has to be one crappy connection to divebomb solaris.

    1. Re:Cray's site... by mrm677 · · Score: 1, Offtopic

      That has to be one crappy connection to divebomb solaris.

      What are you talking about? I've got Solaris 8 running on my Ultra 5 which is about as fast as a 180MHz Pentium Pro.

      Surely because its running Solaris 8, the connection must suck then??? I don't think so.