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Old September 4th 03, 03:15 AM
Malcolm Weir
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On 03 Sep 2003 16:56:53 -0400, David Magda
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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.


Parallel ones!

1GB/sec sounds impressive, but it's only 10 copies of a 100MB/sec
system, and *that* can be achieved with commodity hardware! (Not
trivially, but it can be done).

Malc.