On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 09:10:32AM +0100, Jonathan Aquilina wrote: > Hey guys I was looking at the hadoop page and it got me wondering. is it > possible to cluster together storage servers? If so how efficient would a > cluster of them be?
An interesting problem would be to use reasonably powerful but cheap ARM SoCs in few GBytes onboard RAM and some flash for hybrid filesystems for each hard drive, and cluster them via GBit Ethernet on a very large scale. That would be a custom Beowulf for more storage-related tasks. E.g. an application I have in mind are volumetric datasets with e.g. 8 nm - voxels for biological systems, which are way too large to process in memory. _______________________________________________ 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
