From what I've heard, DSSD is yet another company from Andy
Bechtolsheim that could have a huge impact on the industry. As far as I
know, they are still operating in stealth mode, so there's not much
information about the company online. I think the Wrangler system was to
be their first high-profile project (that I know of), and a lot of those
details are still under NDA.
Looks like they're off to a good start if EMC already bought them.
On 05/16/2014 11:20 AM, Lockwood, Glenn wrote:
This is the technology that TACC will be deploying this year and
putting into production in January 2015:
https://www.tacc.utexas.edu/news/press-releases/2013/wrangler-nsf-grant
We'll see how it stacks up for uses in HPC then.
On May 16, 2014, at 6:10 AM, John Hearns <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
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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