A spork is a cross between a spoon and a fork. Of course there is a double entendre buried in their, as spoon (or spooning) implies a close relationship, and a fork (or forking) implies a split from an original. I think Lustre is sporking. Seriously. And this is a good thing for Lustre (as the major forces behind it are aligning, and still bending over backwords to avoid using the dreaded “f”-word).

This is an economic thing. If I sell my house, in my suburban neighborhood, and I make a profit from that activity, should I be required to share my profit with my neighbors, who don’t own my house? The answer to this is, obviously not. If my business makes money, and makes a profit, should I be required to share my profit with others, who don’t own a portion of my business?

Me: (presents A) “So what do you think?” Them: “Hmmm … nice but what comes after A?” Me: “Lets get another time slot and I’ll go over that” (time passes … order of weeks) Me: (presents post-A) “So what do you think” Them: “Hmmm … nice but what comes after post-A?” Me: “Lets get another time slot and I’ll go over that” (time passes … order of several months, lets call B as post post-A, and we hit important business milestones) Me: (presents B) “So what do you think” Them: “Hmmm … nice but what about A?

Looks like the amendment passed. This provision would have required that we keep records of every transaction above $600 in terms of 1099 forms. So if I go buy tickets for a business trip on LinkedIn, I have to fill out some 1099 bits (and so do they). If someone buys more than $600 of stuff from us, an exchange of 1099 info. Yeah. It was really dumb, and it shouldn’t have been in Obamacare.

Google catches Microsoft with its proverbial hand in the (search) cookie jar … Microsoft’s non-denial denial reads not unlike a Monty Python skit I am fond of. Search for “bat”. “No we didn’t!!!” then “Well, what we meant was ….” heh! That takes cajones!

Just finished an analysis of last years results. We are a private company, so we don’t release financial info (apart from potential investors and those looking to take a stake in the company). We hit 11.7% growth in revenue for the year, and hit a company all time high revenue. This is despite a rather challenging economic environment (to say the least). Costs rose, some … er … astoundingly so. Looking to build on this, and accelerate forward.

Several years ago, before clouds were all the rage, we were working with a large customer discussing an “on-demand” HPC computing service. This service predated Amazon’s setup, and was more in line with what Sabalcore, CRL and others are doing. I remember distinctly from my conversations with the customer that they had particular desires. Specifically, they wanted to run on always the latest/greatest/fastest possible hardware, and not pay any more for this.

Too funny: [ ](http://scalability.org/images/geekgangsignsmain11-450x311.jpg) [had to update, as the folks putting the image up started blocking our link back to them … I thought we did this correctly … wasn’t trying to steal bandwidth]

No details, but this is the sort of day I can do without in terms of excitement. Tonight is fight night in karate. Maybe I can suit up and hit with my good hand. Yeah, its been one of those days.

Last year, say July time frame, if you asked me to name the top high performance computing file systems, and prognosticate who the up and comers were … well, you’d get lists much like I’ve said here in the past. Lustre was the “king” and undisputed leader. pNFS was (sorry Bruce and team) effectively perpetually in the future (yeah, sort of like Perl6 … though we intend to play with both sometime soon … I hope).