AFS Users -
Ceram Incorporated has a new solid-state storage device which may be of interest to
AFS users on Sun workstations and servers. We have a limited number of
no-charge evaluation units which we will be making available to qualified commercial
and educational sites running AFS.
If you are interested in obtaining one or more evaluation units,
please contact me at:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Please include the following information:
Site Contact: email,phone,fax,postal address,
Type of Sun Workstation/Servers,
# of Sun's,
Primary applications: (i.e. code development, database, graphics...)
Thanks.
Craig Warner
Director Of Applications
Ceram Inc.
719 540 8500
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Some product details....
TurboCache is a solid state storage card for Sun and Sun clone
workstations and servers.
Capacity: ~160MB/Board, ~120MB/Board, ~80MB/Board, ~40MB/Board
(Nominal capacity based on 2x1 compression)
Price: $20-30/MB Quantity 1 List, The Lowest Cost Solid State Device On The Market
System Capacity: Up to 6 ~160MB boards/system with optional expansion cabinet.
1GB Maximum capacity SunOS 4.x, 2GB Solaris 2
Technology: TurboCache is based on Ceram's patent pending
real-time solid state lossless compression and error-correction technology.
Each device supports up to 2500 4KB I/O operations/second, and sustained transfer
rates of 10MB/Sec for random and sequential block I/O.
HW Interface: SBUS
SW Interface: Standard 4.2 File System Interface.
HW Support: Sun Sparc 1,1+,2,10/20,10/30,10/40, IPX, IPC, 6xxMP, 2000 (Mar 93),
Classic & LX ( Mar 93)
RDI,Tadpole portables.
Upgradability: Fully upgradable between all SBUS based machines.
OS Support: SunOS (Now) 4.1.1, 4.1.2, 4.1.3
Solaris 2.1( Mar 93)
AFS Applications:
Client side network cache - < 1mSec Access Time.
Diskless workstations - Swap and cache can be configured on the same
device.
Secure environments - Data is encoded and volatile.
High performance workstations - Many are I/O bound with disk based client
cache.
Multi-processor workstations and servers - multiple processors can
create I/O
contention on local cache disk. TurboCache can handle 50 times more
random I/O's
per second than magnetic disk drives.
Availability: Now
