[Beowulf] EMC PCIe flash storage

[Prentice Bisbal]

 From what I've heard, DSSD is yet another company from Andy 
Bechtolsheim that could have a huge impact on the industry. As far as I 
know, they are still operating in stealth mode, so there's not much 
information about the company online. I think the Wrangler system was to 
be their first high-profile project (that I know of), and a lot of those 
details are still under NDA.

Looks like they're off to a good start if EMC already bought them.

On 05/16/2014 11:20 AM, Lockwood, Glenn wrote:
> This is the technology that TACC will be deploying this year and 
> putting into production in January 2015:
>
> https://www.tacc.utexas.edu/news/press-releases/2013/wrangler-nsf-grant
>
> We'll see how it stacks up for uses in HPC then.
>
> On May 16, 2014, at 6:10 AM, John Hearns <hearnsj at googlemail.com 
> <mailto:hearnsj at googlemail.com>> wrote:
>
>> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/05/16/dis_dssd_disdains_fibre_channel_for_pcie/
>>
>> Interestign article.
>> Nothing specific that hasn't been seen before - but putting this 
>> together at rack scale is very impressive.
>> A petabyte of data available with extremely low latency.
>>
>> I have to say though - the fibrechannel is looking like an 
>> increasingly limited technology.
>>
>> The point could be made that fibrechannel has the ability to cope 
>> with failure, and multipathing should a controller or HB fai - I 
>> wonder how riobust PCIe is to failures.
>> But darn it to heck - we are in high performance computing. My take 
>> is that you will tolerate some fragility to get that sort of performance.
>>
>>
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