[Beowulf] Why do we need SANs

[Hearns, John]

This is a thought provoking article on storage:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/03/01/why_do_we_need_sans/


In the light of the recent thread on Thunderbolt, note:
"Infiniband or ..... extermalised PCIe bus"
Do we see the HPC system of the future being a huge blade server farm,
running lots of virtual machines,
with some sort of object storage system spread across the machine
running on selected blades?




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