sijoe

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by sijoe 10y ago
Without knowing more on the specific needs (I followed some of the threads to try to grok it), it would be hard to guess what they really need. [commercial alert] My company (Scalable Informatics) literally builds very high performance Ceph
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by sijoe 10y ago
Thanks for the shout out! Without being a commercial, this high performance storage/analytics realm is what we focus on. We were demoing units like this: https://scalability.org/images/30GBps.png for years now.
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by sijoe 10y ago
I am setting a unit up now for a customer. In the years I've been working on them, the toolchain you need has not gotten much better ... no ... it went from complete crap to meh. You really can't not use the intel compilers for t
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by sijoe 10y ago
Mine was in theoretical physics. I liked my advisor and the work. But she wasn't a go-getter on grant writing, or on paper writing. Many of my friends left and went to medical physics. I thought of it, but decided against it. This w
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by sijoe 10y ago
Quick plug for a company I've used: SSLmate ( http://sslmate.com ) makes cert purchase (for those whom need this) painless and fast. They use Comodo and Geotrust FWIW. I've had my own pain with Comodo through other re
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by sijoe 10y ago
I disagree. It is not the flavor of the month, like other things. There are excellent people available, and not a dwindling number of them at that. Module growth is strong, and accelerating. Not quite the hallmarks of something going the
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by sijoe 10y ago
A key component of the network side of our ( https://scalableinformatics.com ) SIOS layer is handled by Mojolicious running on Perl. Has been for a while (about 5 years). I've taken some steps to do a re-implementation in n
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by sijoe 10y ago
While I acknowledge the humor intended, it is important to note that nipping incorrect conjectures before people waste time building edifices atop them, is an extremely good outcome. In the strongest possible manner, this advances mathemati
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by sijoe 10y ago
Heh (on the jobs paused bits) ... most modern shared file systems are HA (or nearly HA) except when people build them cheaply. And then you get an effective RAID0. I was pointing out that if you are doing the analytics at AWS or similar on
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by sijoe 10y ago
Actually Joyent's manta is quite similar in concept to what we've been doing for years (before manta came out). The idea is to build very capable systems and aggregate them. Not a bunch of fairly low end units (like typical AWS&
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by sijoe 10y ago
[old HPC guy here, you kids get off my lawn!] ... well, then there is the issue of distributing that 2TB data set. I'll get to the Amdahl's law issue in a moment. This is a non-trivial problem. Ok, it is trivial, but its serial
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by sijoe 10y ago
TL;DR version: Anything that is not your application won't use the resources in the same way, and will have very different properties (scaling, performance, contention, etc.) Longer: bonnie++ is not a load generator. Really. Start a
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by sijoe 10y ago
Oh my gosh ... the fortran computed goto is back ... See http://www.lahey.com/docs/lfprohelp/F95ARComputed_GOTOStmt.h...
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by sijoe 11y ago
We've limit "working for free", to things that should help us close business against existing quotes with a commitment from the customer to execute on the quote in question. Our work is hard enough to replicate elsewhere tha
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by sijoe 11y ago
Been thinking about doing the customer version of this. [after a long indepth technical discussion with a qualified opportunity, quoting, resources allocated, ready to pull the trigger on a large project] me: So we are ready to go, waiting
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by sijoe 11y ago
Not YC backed, but we ( https://angel.co/scalable-informatics ) are offering our NVMe appliance at $1/GB usable. See https://scalableinformatics.com/forte for more info.
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by sijoe 12y ago
slowpath data appliances for buzzword dense storage: http://scalableinformatics.com/tortoise
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Negative latencies(scalability.org)
2 points by sijoe 13y ago|0 comments
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Entrepreneurs are optimists(scalability.org)
1 points by sijoe 13y ago|0 comments