One thing that really caught my eye was seamicros new storage servers up to 5 petabytes of storage
On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 2:59 PM, Eugen Leitl <eu...@leitl.org> wrote: > 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 > -- Jonathan Aquilina
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