Eric Lee Green writes:
[...]
it is possible. The only real question is how to scale that
approach up to handle commercial volumes of data and thruput and
the requirements of replication across multiple mirrored data
centers -- and who is to go after this convergence.
CERN is currently building a large nuclear accelerator which will
produce on the order of 1+GB/s of data. The next generation
accelerator after that will have even larger requirements.
It'd be interesting to see what type of solution(s) they come up with.
--
David Magda dmagda at ee.ryerson.ca,
http://www.magda.ca/
Because the innovator has for enemies all those who have done well under
the old conditions, and lukewarm defenders in those who may do well
under the new. -- Niccolo Machiavelli, _The Prince_, Chapter VI