I’ve got a much longer writeup in mind. Those who attend SCxx and think its big … er … no. Conservative guess that NAB is 5x the size of SCxx in terms of exhibit floor space. This may be an under estimate by 2-4x BTW, I’ve only visited the upper and lower south exhibit hall areas. Not the central or north exhibit halls. And, to add insult to injury … the entire SCxx floor would fit in 1/2 of one of the upper or lower floor levels.

This is the other 5U JackRabbit unit we are building for the customer. Single thread read of an large file, no caching. This is spinning rust (e.g. hard disk). This uses 2TB drives while the other unit uses 1TB drives. The theoretical maximum we could pull data off these units the way they are arranged now is 4.68 GB/s with these particular drives. [root@jr5-2 ~]# dd of=/dev/null if=/data/big.file ... 1024+0 records in 1024+0 records out 137438953472 bytes (137 GB) copied, 29.

AaaS/StaaS (Archive as a service, Storage as a service) seems to have providers dropping their offerings as they are not very profitable. As with computing as a service, the issues are costs, pure and simple. For this to work well as a service, you, the provider, need your costs to be well below what you charge your customers. Moreover, the cost you charge your customers needs to be below their entire burdened costs for replicating the same thing in house.

канализацияWe wanted to see what one of the current gen machines could do for writing and reading a 1TB (1000GB) sized file. So we set up a simple fio deck to do this. Then ran it. Run status group 0 (all jobs): WRITE: io=999.78GB, aggrb=3535.7MB/s, minb=3620.6MB/s, maxb=3620.6MB/s, mint=289552msec, maxt=289552msec The write took 289.6 seconds. Less than 5 minutes, or 12.4 TB/hour write speed. The read Run status group 0 (all jobs): READ: io=999.

New JackRabbit JR5 in lab (actually a pair of them) being built for a customer. Running some real simple baseline tests. Very simple stuff. RAID6. dd. [root@jr5-1 ~]# dd if=/dev/zero of=/data/big.file ... 1250+0 records in 1250+0 records out 83886080000 bytes (84 GB) copied, 26.4774 seconds, 3.2 GB/s and a quicky-dirty fio run … Run status group 0 (all jobs): WRITE: io=128004MB, aggrb=3336.4MB/s, minb=3416.4MB/s, maxb=3416.4MB/s, mint=38367msec, maxt=38367msec and the read version

We will be there, with 2 machines in a booth with our partner JRTI/XCT. We are featuring Flash hardware from Virident and showing a demo (or set of demos) on very high performance data analysis using kdb+ Scalable gear will include a JackRabbit JR4 unit with 2x Virident TachIOn cards (think drool-worthy 1GB/s 300k IOP cards … ). Everything in the JR4 is new, apart from the disks … which are older/slower (what we had on hand).

I think this news story is a day early. It has all the requisite gems in it. My gosh, for a moment, I thought Microsoft was talking about itself in the PC market. Then I saw the words “Google” and “e-book”. Now if we changed those to “Microsoft” and “PC”, yeah, that statement would also be true. Are we sure this isn’t the first of April?

Ignore some of the ugly table bits to the left. Still working on the screen layout, menu look/feel, etc. But you can get a sense of what we are doing. This will appear at the HPC Linux on Wall Street show with us next week, as we will be running demos from this (and showing to a few prospective partners/customers at NAB in Las Vegas). Please feel free to stop by if you are in NYC for the show … Many of the functions are not fully hooked to the controllers yet, but you will get the idea.

As seen on InsideHPC in a post Ok … a long time ago I posted a somewhat silly post, briefly lampooning the VC’s penchants for crowd-funding ideas that were buzzword heavy (and, ahem … value-lite … ahem), whilst ignoring real innovation, real markets, real companies. This video does a similar type of lampooning, and it is, sadly, on the money. If we were pitching the day job as a “Social network, and crowd source content and media data repository” rather than as a “high performance storage and computing solutions” company … yeah … chances are we’d get much more interest from that community.

You can sort of see this coming. Oracle is ditching Itanium development, effective immediately. If they haven’t done so for Power … yet … I’d expect this soon as well. Oracles' claim is that Intel is ditching Itanium. Well, yeah, its sort of a weak argument. The future of Intel isn’t much on the Itanium side of things. x86 and derivatives appear to be their future, but Itanium isn’t being deep sixed now.