[Beowulf] Cell

[Lombard, David N]

From: Vincent Diepeveen on Wednesday, April 27, 2005 2:39 PM
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>A raid5 array of 2 terabyte costs like $2000-$3000 and it can deliver
>400-600MB/s i/o hands down when attached to a single machine. So if you
>make the 1 tflop processor, there is no need to worry!

RAID-5?  Cached perhaps, but where is that useful?  For uncached, I've
only seen this on RAID-0 with independent PCI-X channels, multiple
controllers, and 12 drives.  So, if you have an alternative, I'm
listening!

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David N. Lombard
 
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