[Beowulf] Rackable / SGI
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Greg Lindahl lindahl at pbm.comThu Apr 2 13:02:15 PDT 2009
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On Thu, Apr 02, 2009 at 06:40:47PM +0200, Loic Tortay wrote: > Ah ah ah, you've obviously never seen a "Thumper". :) OK, I must have ass-u-me-d something when it came out -- they were touting "48 drives in 5U!!", right at the same time that a commodity chassis with 48 drives in 5U (and room for a mobo, it wasn't the external RAID chassis that you're referring to) came out. Looking at an image of Thumper, it's the descendant of the first Sun external RAID system, which I had the misfortune to eval in 1996. The hard part in a 48-disk system is the software, not the hardware. -- greg
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