Rafuino

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by Rafuino 5y ago
I found the lobby group and AMD's logo is there... They're probably not mentioned just because they're a blip on the radar compared to what AWS, GCP, and Azure buy from Intel still. https://www.chipsinamerica.org&
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by Rafuino 5y ago
How does KeyDB compare to memKeyDB? https://github.com/memKeyDB/memKeyDB
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by Rafuino 5y ago
Now the Q is how will the districts be drawn to make those two new TX districts reliably red, eh?
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by Rafuino 5y ago
I met him at Defcon 21 and ran across him again when I was running a developer hardware access project in my last job just a couple years back. He struck me as incredibly curious (as a hacker must be!) and was a pleasure to work with. The
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by Rafuino 5y ago
Perhaps look into Vast Data? They have a TCO calculator [1] but it seems to compare to other on-prem data storage providers (like Isolon...). 10PB in One Zone IA costs $100,000/mo without discount, or $1.2M per year, and that's
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by Rafuino 6y ago
Yeah, I stopped reading at that exact point.
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by Rafuino 6y ago
Almost definitely U.2 drives that slot into the front of the server. Here's a cartoony view of what that looks like (on a P5800X Optane SSD): https://www.servethehome.com/new-intel-optane-p5800x-100-dwp...
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by Rafuino 6y ago
Battery backed flash sounds like a huge PitA to deal with though. Where do you even get that?
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by Rafuino 6y ago
If Jeffrey Snover says they made a "screw up," the actual question to answer is how did this get approved in the first place? Thankfully we have privacy activists looking at these shady products.
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by Rafuino 6y ago
This is exactly the kind of company I wouldn't want to work for unless they highly, highly reward me for "giving a shit" (aka working like a dog for the exec team to have a better exit when they sell the company).
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by Rafuino 6y ago
For only the low low cost of everything in your bank account!
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by Rafuino 6y ago
DARPA?
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by Rafuino 6y ago
TL/DR (or you can't get pass the paywall) - Intel is in talks with SK Hynix to sell the non-volatile memory solutions group (NSG) to SK Hynix for ~$10B. It's not clear if this is just the NAND business or if it includes Opta
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by Rafuino 6y ago
Can you help me understand why latency kills IOPS? There's lots of work showing NVMe over TCP bringing similar performance and latency from a remote server as compared to a local SSD. Here's an example: https://www.micr
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by Rafuino 6y ago
I don't get the sudden press on this bill. It was introduced in March, and it was added to the Senate calendar in July. There was one hearing back in March, yes, but there isn't even a companion bill in the House at this point.
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by Rafuino 6y ago
The issue though is that each server itself is starting to have 100 Gbit network connections, not just the rack itself.
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by Rafuino 6y ago
Wow, the author himself! Thanks for the great details. I missed the detail in the article about single threaded testing, so thanks for clarifying. I definitely see the specs for the Samsung drive show higher peak random IOPS but I'm a
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by Rafuino 6y ago
This is what's really interesting to me right now. A 1 TB 980 Pro SSD (I know, not a "data center" SSD, but it's the most recent Gen4 SSD I've seen announced) can handle ~300MB/s [1] of random writes at realis
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by Rafuino 6y ago
fio is definitely the way to go! Are you looking at what Jens has done with io_uring as well for async IO?
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by Rafuino 6y ago
I'm just done with a view that "what matters" is what makes more money for senior executives and shareholders.
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by Rafuino 6y ago
Super interesting, thank you! I imagine there are other music software out there that have similar behavior. What kind of storage do you use to run Hauptwerk and take the beating from all those writes?
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by Rafuino 6y ago
BTW, the Optane drive you bought is limited to PCIe Gen 3 x2, so it won't get the full performance of a x4 Optane SSD (like a 900P, 905P, or P4800X). https://ark.intel.com/content/www/us/en/ark/
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by Rafuino 6y ago
May I ask what workload(s) you have that cause you to write that much to your SSD? Looks like with this drive you could write an average of ~330GB per day over 5 years and stay within the 600TB write warranty (on the 1TB version, at least)
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by Rafuino 6y ago
SanDisk bought them in 2014, and after that, I have no idea what's happened to their technology...
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by Rafuino 6y ago
Has this kind of extended free trial for a new instance happened before? 3.5 months is pretty long. A micro instance for a whole month only costs AWS ~$6 in revenue, but still, it's a nice, long period for testing.
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by Rafuino 6y ago
"Politics is tough because in many ways people elect people who lie a lot. In business, we really try to avoid that. The skills to succeed in politics are really quite different than in business." I disagree with this on multiple
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by Rafuino 6y ago
Would the Optane in this case be used as an L2ARC to handle part or all of the dedupe table? I'm trying to brush up on my ZFS terminology at the moment...
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Io_uring and Optane2(lore.kernel.org)
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by Rafuino 6y ago
Did anyone put their first gen to use? Saw that huge chip last year (or maybe the year before at this point... time doesn't exist anymore...), but I never heard of actual users or buyers.
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by Rafuino 6y ago
I have a Googler friend in the consumer hardware side, and I heard they're given more freedom to bring equipment home with them...

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