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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. fp by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    fp

  2. i want one by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    FP;)

  3. Ok, but does it by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    run Linux? If so, can you image a... whops, someone beat me to that one, sorry.

  4. wow by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I think this may be the first time I've ever read jaw dropping hardware specs on slashdot, and you could go out and buy it.

  5. Dear Santa by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Um. Woo. Christmas? Please? Blowjob?

    I must own one of these. I simply can't live without it.

    1. Re:Dear Santa by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      "I must own one of these. I simply can't live without it."

      For your sake, I hope your death is quick and painless....

  6. Re:Wow, that is utterly amazing. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    "Cray" should change the name to "CraZy". cause they are.

  7. 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...

    --
    Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes. --E. W. Dijkstra
  8. 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.

  9. Re:somebody do the math for me cause im lazy by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Which, amazingly, _doesn't_ answer the question.

  10. Re:somebody do the math for me cause im lazy by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    It's not that your lazy...

    It's that your stupid...

  11. Re:Yeah Yeah... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    you mean crash Windows fast?

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