One thing that really caught my eye was seamicros new storage servers up to 5 petabytes of storage<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 2:59 PM, Eugen Leitl <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:eugen@leitl.org" target="_blank">eugen@leitl.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="im">On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 09:10:32AM +0100, Jonathan Aquilina wrote:<br>
> Hey guys I was looking at the hadoop page and it got me wondering. is it<br>
> possible to cluster together storage servers? If so how efficient would a<br>
> cluster of them be?<br>
<br>
</div>An interesting problem would be to use reasonably powerful but<br>
cheap ARM SoCs in few GBytes onboard RAM and some flash<br>
for hybrid filesystems for each hard drive, and cluster<br>
them via GBit Ethernet on a very large scale.<br>
<br>
That would be a custom Beowulf for more storage-related<br>
tasks. E.g. an application I have in mind are volumetric<br>
datasets with e.g. 8 nm - voxels for biological systems,<br>
which are way too large to process in memory.<br>
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