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eviscerates Sun’s moves in storage, and rips into thumper (x4500, which our JackRabbit competes with). Some of the writing mirrors some discussions I have had recently in terms of what has happened to Sun. Where are they going, what are they doing.
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Just updated laptop to Ubuntu 8.04. This is a Dell dual core unit, and while the phrase “remove it from my cold dead fingers” comes to mind (yeah, it is pretty good), some things in the new release don’t work well. Ok, well they do work better than before. But some of the “helper” bits are horribly broken. Suppose you want to install Cuda on this laptop (I did). And you want the new model Cuda aware driver (I did). lrm-video will do everything in its power to prevent you from doing this. So … a fast vim session with /sbin/lrm-video solved the problem. Cuda now works.
But other things don’t work well, like flash in a browser. Or Java in a browser. And this gets to the point of this post.
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Well, there is an economic slowdown going on, so we shouldn’t be surprised when Intel and Microsoft post slightly lower earnings. Some HPC companies are getting hammered though.
SGI just announced earnings, or more correctly, losses for the quarter. You can read it online at Yahoo finance and others. They lost 14% today. Down into the $7/share region.
ClearSpeed, who I have talked about before, is being hammered. See their graph (also at Yahoo finance)
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A number of new things happening on the JackRabbit front.
First, 2 new models: the deskside unit with 15 drive bays, and the JackRabbit-M (JRM) unit with 24 drive bays. The deskside is targeted at groups running calculations on their desktops or small clusters, that need a local high performance low cost storage resource. The JRM unit is midrange between the JRS and the JR, with 12-24 TB raw capacity, and 1 to 2 RAID cards.
Second, pricing on all units has been updated. Every rackmount unit and most of the desksides are below $1/GB. Some substantially below this. Pricing on the high end 48TB raw unit is below $36k USD. The 24TB is around $21k USD.
Third, performance has improved some. We will detail this at a later time.
There are other things as well … go check out the site for more information.
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Long day, spent most of it talking to people and groups. This is a small conference, attendance is ok, not heavy, not light.
Saw lots of people I know/knew. Some I met today. Met Deepak from BBGM in person, and a number of people I have conversed with in the past through email/phone. Saw a few old colleagues.
On the exhibits/discussions … some memes I see floating about, and have been hearing for a while.
Storage. Storage. Nuthin but storage. Who knew that storing terabytes of data, retrieving terabytes of data, and using terabytes of data would be hard? Ok, rhetorical. This is precisely what JackRabbit was designed to do.
BTW: for people interested, there is a little bit of paper at the Bioinformatics.org booth which gives you a discount if you order a unit with the attached code. Please go visit them.
JackRabbit was designed to do this (move/store/retrieve huge data very quickly and cost effectively) in large part due to the memes I saw emerging about 2 years ago, where data growth rates were going to be more troublesome than computational demand. If you can’t store the data, why collect it? If you can’t retrieve it and distribute it to compute nodes, why try to do that?
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Short … From blackberry.
A number of people have noted what we have been observing, that life science users don’t want to pay for performance. Business models predicated upon higher price for perceived value of being faster won’t fly well.
Similarly there is even more interest in storage.
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20-30 mouse clicks, and I went from 2.5 to 2.5.1. There is a bug in the wizard, will file it later on.
but …
it works.
Easily.
BTW: if you haven’t got the news, update your Wordpress 2.5 to 2.5.1 … Now. As in immediately. Some sort of bad bug with live exploit apparently in the wild.
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I had expected Microsoft to announce another record quarter after Intel announced their results. They two did go hand in hand. Well, it turns out that Microsoft did not do as well as anticipated. Nor did Intel.
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Ted T’so did a good job of analyzing the current poor state of open source solaris as a community. He points to a number of community building and engineering failures (such as building a mercurial repository … really it is easy). He points to the marketing and business case issues. On a humorous note, he points to the response of a Solaris engineer to posts by David Miller on why Linux outperforms Solaris on some microbenchmarks.
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[updated] Liveleak staff support proved to be quite helpful. The issue may be less of a platform dependence as I had presumed, and more of a flash and (format/video) coding issue.
[update 2] Looks like it may have been a problem in the player for flash8 video. They fixed it, within about 3 hours of my reporting it. That is the sort of service we like to deliver to our customers. I appreciate this.
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