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Matthew
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Posted - 2005.10.06 19:00:00 -
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 Originally by: Dezzyb0y
No more spinning discs, it acts more like a USB Pen on a much larger and faster scale.
Yep, Oveur linked to the kit elsewhere, and it's some sweet stuff. It's basically a box full of RAM (up to 136Gb per box) with backup power and hard drives. It's not quite as good has having 136Gb of RAM directly on your motherboard, but it's a lot better than an array of hard drives - the seek times alone improve by orders of mangnitude.
Originally by: Dezzyb0y
All you gaming geeks that thought SATA was awesome... this stuff is unbelivable.
The fibre channel array interface makes SATA look like a morse code key anyway, the solid state boxes can just saturate it on their own, rather than needing a whole stack of hard drives. SATA goes 150Mb/s per channel, the fibre channel array connections on the solid state boxes go more like 2Gb/s.
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Matthew
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Posted - 2005.10.06 19:21:00 -
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Originally by: theRaptor
All consumer gear is like that. Its also insanely poorly made and unstable compared to Big IronÖ. Most people don't notice this because their systems maybe hit 10% capacity.
Of course, that consumer gear is also a tiny fraction of the price of that Big IronÖ, which is a big factor in getting a computer of any sort into people's homes.
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Matthew
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Posted - 2005.10.06 19:33:00 -
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Originally by: Dezzyb0y
I didnt wanna get geeky about it =)
Aww, go on. Give in to the inner geek 
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Posted - 2005.10.06 20:00:00 -
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Edited by: Matthew on 06/10/2005 20:00:00
Originally by: Wanoah
I still wish Eve could run on one of IBM's mainframes. I honestly don't know whether the architecture would work at all for games (I suspect not) but the reliability and stability is phenominal. They make Intel-based servers look like they were built by retarded monkeys.
Would scalability be the factor here - i.e. it's easier to upgrade the bladecentre when you get more users?
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Posted - 2005.10.07 10:37:00 -
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Originally by: M3ta7h3ad
Solid State?
Would this suffer from similar "limited write cycle" issue that currently plagues consumer devices built along the same lines (i.e. flash memory devices).
Only to the same degree the RAM in your PC does. This isn't some box full of USB memory sticks or anything. As I understand it, these boxes are basically rammed full of normal RAM chips. The RAM is handled in such a way as to be able to be able to recover from the failure of an entire RAM chip. It also has a RAID array of hard drives maintaining a backup copy of the data (though the slower HDD backup doesn't limit the RAM). It also has a redundant backup battery that lasts for approx 20 minutes. It takes approx 11 minutes to dump the complete contents of the RAM onto the HDD's in the event of a power failure, but a full dump is not usually needed as the HDD's will have been backing up on the fly.
Originally by: Mangus Thermopyle
Yea, I remember hearing about that. Isnt Python a script language? Not so strange they have all sort of performance issues then
Stackless Python (which is what they are using - it's not just plain normal Python) does have some very nice properties for this sort of application though.
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