[email protected] (Graham Harris) writes: > I recall Storagetek talking about RAIT around a decade ago. Not sure if > anything came of it in the mainframe space. The concept seems to be 'out > there' on other platforms.
re: http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014f.html#64 non-IBM: SONY new tape storage - 185 Terabytes on a tape http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014f.html#65 non-IBM: SONY new tape storage - 185 Terabytes on a tape http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014g.html#16 non-IBM: SONY new tape storage - 185 Terabytes on a tape note that cyclotomics was instrumental in reed-solomon error correcting for cdrom standard ... was being used for communication before started showing up in computer magnetic disk and other magnetic media. when I was doing HSDT project inside IBM ... some past posts http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#hsdt ... had number of meetings with cyclotomics ... also one of the people that got assigned to HSDT (inside IBM) had been reed's graduate student at caltech/jpl and had done a lot of the work on reed-solomon (he had been undergraduate at MIT ... and even remembered taking MIT class from my wife's father) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reed%E2%80%93Solomon_error_correction during that period, cyclotomics was acquired by kodak (Berlekamp was one of the cyclotomics founders) ... old email announcement of cyclotomics talk at stanford http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005n.html#email860414 Error Correction with Reed-Solomon http://www.drdobbs.com/testing/error-correction-with-reed-solomon/240157266 from above: Reed-Solomon might well be the most ubiquitously implemented algorithm: Barcodes use it; every CD, DVD, RAID6, and digital tape device uses it; so do digital TV and DSL. Even in deep space, Reed-Solomon toils away. Here's how it works its magic. ... snip ... for little drift storagetek was acquired by sun which has since been acquired by oracle: http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014g.html#72 After the Sun (Microsystems) Sets, the Real Stories Come Out http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014g.html#73 After the Sun (Microsystems) Sets, the Real Stories Come Out references: After the Sun (Microsystems) Sets, the Real Stories Come Out http://spectrum.ieee.org/view-from-the-valley/at-work/tech-careers/after-the-sun-microsystems-sets-the-real-stories-come-out from above: The IBM 360 The very first Sun workstations delivered to a major customer in May 1982 didn't run Unix; instead, they were used as IBM 360 terminal emulators. ... snip ... Storagetek had earlier acquired "Network Systems" ... that I had also done quite a bit of work with during HSDT ... "Network Systems" had been founded by Thorton ... who along with Cray had been responsible for 6600 at CDC. -- virtualization experience starting Jan1968, online at home since Mar1970 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
