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Thumper Contest What workloads can you thump with thumper?

Seriously - what's Thumper?  It's the X4500, a server with serious data storage and computation in one box.  Speaking for myself I don't understand why you would separate storage from computation, since computation often requires data to back it up, and you get the best bandwidth to your data if the data is on the same server.  But there's a lot of brilliant minds who came up with the separation between storage and computation, so there must have been a reason.  In any case, having storage and computation in the same box ought to fit some large number of application types.

Seems we've launched a contest asking y'all to think about what kinds of applications work well with Thumper.




And as long as you're here... I found this other video that's pretty funny.
(2006-09-14 12:09:31.0) Permalink