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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