Massive unapologetic storage firepower part 4: On the test track with a Forte...
I am trying to help people conceptualize the experience. Here is a video depicting very fast, very powerful cars and their sound signatures. This is a good start. Take one of those awesome machines,...
View ArticleNot even breaking a sweat: 10GB/s write to single node Forte unit over 100Gb...
TL;DR version: 10GB/s write, 10GB/s read in a single 2U unit over 100Gb network to a backing file system. This is tremendous. The system and clients are using our default tuning/config. Real...
View ArticleTalk from #Kxcon2016 on #HPC #Storage for #BigData analytics is up
See here, which was largely about how to architect high performance analytics platforms, and a specific shout out to our Forte NVMe flash unit, which is currently available in volume starting at $1...
View ArticleSystemd and non-desktop scenarios
So we’ve been using Debian 8 as the basis of our SIOS v2 system. Debian has a number of very strong features that make it a fantastic basis for developing a platform … for one, it doesn’t have...
View ArticleRaw Unapologetic Firepower: kdb+ from @Kx
While the day job builds (hyperconverged) appliances for big data analytics and storage, our partners build the tools that enable users to work easily with astounding quantities of data, and do so very...
View Article@scalableinfo 60 bay Unison with these: 3.6PB raw per 4U box
Color me impressed … Seagate and their 60TB 3.5inch SAS drive. Yes, the 60 bay Unison units can handle this. That would be 3.6PB per 4U unit. 10x 4U per 48U rack. 36PB raw per rack. 100PB in 3 racks,...
View ArticleFully RAMdisk booted CentOS 7.2 based SIOS image for #HPC , #bigdata ,...
This is something we’ve been working on for a while … a completely clean, as baseline a distro as possible, version of our SIOS RAMdisk image using CentOS (and by extension, Red Hat … just need to...
View Article#Perl on the rise for #DevOps
Note: I do quite a bit of development in Perl, and have my own biases, so please do take this into consideration. It is one of many languages I use, but it is by and large, my current go-to language....
View ArticleBrings a smile to my face … #BioIT #HPC accelerator
Way way back in the early aughts (2000’s), we had built a set of designs for an accelerator system to speed up things like BLAST, HMMer, and other codes. We were told that no one would buy such things,...
View ArticleWhat is old, is new again
Way back in the pre-history of the internet (really DARPA-net/BITNET days), while dinosaur programming languages frolicked freely on servers with “modern” programming systems and data sets, there was a...
View ArticleI always love these breathless stories of great speed, and how VCs love them …
Though, when I look at the “great speed”, it is often on par with or less than Scalable Informatics sustained years before. From 2013 SC13 show, on the show floor, after blasting through a POC at...
View ArticleOn hackerrank and Julia
My new day job has me developing considerably less code than my previous endeavor, so I like to work on problems to keep these particular muscles in steady use. Happily, I get to do more analytics than...
View ArticleWhat reduces risk … a great engineering and support team, or a brand name ?
I’ve written about approved vendors and “one throat to choke” concept in the past. The short take from my vantage point as a small, not well known, but highly differentiated builder of high performance...
View ArticleCray “acquires” ClusterStor business unit from Seagate
Information at this link. It is being called a “strategic transaction”, though it likely came about vis-a-vis Seagate doing some profound and deep thinking over what business it was in. Seagate has...
View ArticleFinally got to use MCE::* in a project
There are a set of modules in the Perl universe that I’ve been looking for an excuse to use for a while. They are the MCE set of modules, which purportedly enable easy concurrency and parallelism,...
View ArticleM&A and business things
First up, Tegile was acquired by Western Digital (WDC). This is in part due to WDC’s desire to be a one stop shop vertically integrated supplier for storage parts, systems, etc. This is how all of the...
View ArticleAria2c for the win!
I’ve not heard of aria2c before today. Sort of a super wget as far as I could tell. Does parallel transfers to reduce data motion time, if possible. So I pulled it down, built it. I have some large...
View ArticleInteresting post on mixed integer programming for diets … that has some...
I am a fan of the Julia language. Tremendously powerful analytical environment, compiled, high performance, easy to understand and use, strongly typed, … there’s a long list of reasons why I like it....
View ArticleOn technology zealotry
I’ve encountered this in my career, at many places. Sadly, early in my career, I participated in some of this. You are a zealot for a particular form of tech if you can see it do no wrong, and decry...
View ArticleWhat is old, is new again
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