On 02/25/11 08:05, Jonathan Dursi wrote: > Not really - best I've seen so far is ars > > http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2011/02/thunderbolt-smokes-usb-firewire-with-10gbps-throughput.ars
>From the page: "That 10Gbps is much faster than most current I/O technologies. With two devices pushing data at the maximum rate, you could back up a full Blu-ray movie in 30 seconds, or sync 64GB of music to a portable device in about a minute." I love completely meaningless comparisons like this, which assume the medium your pushing or pulling your data to or from is capable of respectively reading or writing at that rate. For instance, where is this massive Blu-ray movie going to? The hard drive on the laptop? Unless one has a magic raid array in your laptop or is willing to burn out your $1000 ssd drive at a particularly fast rate, writing greater than 1.2GB per second is something like 10x faster than typical consumer HDDs can work with. Additionally, why isn't there any comparisons with eSata? This seems to me like another way to draw ignorant people in for proprietary multimedia devices and keep them from moving off the Mac platform (assuming PCs don't get this). What a surprise. > interest. Consumer grade stuff suddenly coming with something that looks a > bit like > Inifiniband, (that you could also also easily open a console up over?) does > seem like > it'd be useful. The question is, I guess, if it can be switched/routed > easily. I guess I'm lost on why this would be really useful, especially from a beowulfery perspective. It's not like any sane Beowulfer would pay a premium for Macs just to have this interconnect when they could just get some old IB hardware. Best, ellis _______________________________________________ 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
