Wednesday July 12, 2006 Sun unveils 'Thumper' super DAS
SearchStorage.com takes a look at the Sun Fire X4500 super storage server:"Professor Satoshi Matsuoka of the Tokyo Institute of Technology, an early adopter of the X4500, said in an email to SearchStorage.com that his institution has been using 42 of the boxes, each with four dozen 500 GB SATA drives and InfiniBand interconnects, since April 1. The institute has designed a network that integrates the Thumper as compute nodes using the open source Lustre parallel file system program. Matsuoka said he has measured over 1gigabyte per second (GBps) I/O performance per server, aggregated via Lustre, for up to 50 GBps total I/O." Full Story Posted by Rich Brueckner [HPC Article of the Day] ( July 12, 2006 08:19 AM ) Permalink
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