treatments, we don't need no stinking treatments And by the way, that is LECCIBG (pronounced "leccibg"). For the curious,
http://www.clustermonkey.net/content/view/164/57/ -- Doug > 2009/6/5 Joe Landman <land...@scalableinformatics.com>: >> > >> Look at it this way ... what is the cost/benefit to the movie-company to >> buy/build expensive storage and build tiers, as compared to much less >> expensve replicated/HSMed storage? I think the writing is clearly on >> the >> wall on this. Lots of the folks in this industry will disagree, but >> follow >> what the customers are actually doing. >> > There is a science fiction novel which describes how women will live > forever. As women become older, their life expectancy will increase as > new and expensive treatments become available to medical science to > extend their lifetime. At the point where the rate of increase becomes > more than one year added per year, you are effectively immortal. Of > course only women, being wise enough to invest their money in compound > interest bearing schemes will benefit from this. Men, who smoke and > drink at eg. the LECBIG, will die too early for their money to pay for > extended treatments. > > So what we really want is a storage system that will swallow up drives > as they get bigger and bigger - so as your researchers create more and > more data, or stream in more and more satellite/accelerator data/logs > of phone calls (a la GCHQ) then your storage system is expanding at a > faster rate. > > _______________________________________________ > Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org sponsored by Penguin Computing > To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit > http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf > -- Doug _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org sponsored by Penguin Computing To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
