IBM Building 120PB Cluster Out of 200,000 Hard Disks 290
MrSeb writes "Smashing all known records by some margin, IBM Research Almaden, California, has developed hardware and software technologies that will allow it to strap together 200,000 hard drives to create a single storage cluster of 120 petabytes — 120 million gigabytes. The data repository, which currently has no name, is being developed for an unnamed customer, but with a capacity of 120PB, it's most likely use will be a storage device for a governmental (or Facebook) supercomputer. With IBM's GPFS (General Parallel File System), over 30,000 files can be created per second — and with massive parallelism, and no doubt thanks to the 200,000 individual drives in the array, single files can be read or written at several terabytes per second."
Re:Paranoid much? (Score:3, Informative)
modern gernome compression techniques only store the edits needed to convert the reference genome to your genome. And the diff file is just around 24 MB per person. I am an ex-bioinformatician.
Not so impressive as a floppy RAID (Score:2, Informative)
If they could make a 120PB cluster using floppy disks, I would be much more entertained by this.
Re:What's it for? (Score:2, Informative)
A billionaire's porn collection is called a "harem".