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I found my new hard drive a Cray a 224-gigabyte Solid State Disk (SSD)! check these stats out!

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<< SEATTLE (April 8, 2002) - Cray Inc. today announced the availability of the world's highest-capability expansion memory and data transfer system. The new system, compatible with Cray SV1e? and Cray SV1ex? supercomputers, includes a 224-gigabyte Solid State Disk (SSD) with a data transfer rate of 80 gigabytes per second-800 or more times faster than the 10- to 100-megabytes/second speeds typical with today's disk servers.

The field-upgradeable SSD system can hold 27 copies of the Human Genome and transfer data at a rate equivalent to 100 Human Genomes per second. With their 32-gigabyte central memories and the new SSD system, Cray SV1? series supercomputers now provide up to a quarter terabyte of ultrafast memory. They can also be linked to a virtually unlimited number of standard disk servers for additional capacity, and to other computer systems via high-speed networking.

"With the new SSD system, Cray SV1 series supercomputers can handle extremely large, data-intensive problems with unprecedented speed, convenience and cost-effectiveness," said Jerry Loe, Cray vice president of worldwide sales and service. "This will be particularly useful in bioinformatics, and for complex automotive and aerospace applications." The Cray SV1 series, named "Best Supercomputer" in 2001 by the readers of Scientific Computing & Instrumentation magazine, includes special hardware features for bioinformatics.

"With the new SSD, bioinformaticists will be able to work with several copies of the Human Genome at a time, or perform whole genome comparisons, or pursue drug design and discovery, without wasting valuable compute time waiting for standard disk data transfers," said Jef Dawson, Cray's manager of bioinformatics development and marketing. "The SSD can keep up with the Cray SV1 parallel supercomputers' processors, which perform up to 12 operations per clock cycle."

Dawson said the SSD will benefit virtually any application requiring large data sets. "The popular automotive application MSC/Nastran ran 2.5 times faster using the new SSD capability. Applications that run 'out of core,' including the popular GAUSSIAN chemistry codes, are also well suited to the SSD. You can think of the SSD as the world's biggest cache memory, or the world's biggest I/O buffer. Either way, it offers the world a new capability." >>



Ill take 2 please 🙂:Q
 
I've been reading about solid-state storage for almost 8 years... used to be some kind of crystal idea...
I just wonder how much this little beastie costs? And when it'll be commercially viable.

I think that transfer rate is faster than some people's RAM! :Q
 
I wonder how much those are gonna cost? $15,000? Sign me up for 4, I'll run them in RAID 🙂
 


<< I wonder how much those are gonna cost? $15,000? Sign me up for 4, I'll run them in RAID 🙂 >>



I wonder what kind of improvement youd see running raid 0?😎
 
<<I wonder how much those are gonna cost? $15,000?>> I doubt it would be that cheap

Is Cray still part of SGI?
 
I think that transfer rate is faster than some people's RAM

Yup, I wonder what this means for the memory market.
 
That kind of technology will cost a fortune guys, dont bet on seeing it anywhere near the desktop market for years to come.
 
am I reading this wrong?

224 gig capacity
80 gig per sec transfer

which means it can read its own drive in less than 2.75secs

can store 27 genomes,
but can read 100 genomes per sec.
that works out to 830 gigs per sec... maybe they meant 10 per sec, which would be 83 gigs per sec, seems more reasonable.

If you were to use 256meg sticks of DDR, it would probably cost about 70k just for the storage space, the drive itself and interface would be far far more than 150k. The mark up on parts like that are ridiculously high, to compensate for low sales, and research, a million for a harddrive? not impossible.
 


<< I think that transfer rate is faster than some people's RAM! :Q >>



That thing has faster transfer-rate than ANYONE's RAM! Let's see, it can transfer about 80 gigs/sec. For comparison, dual-channel DDR-RAM can transfer about 4.2 gigs/sec.
 
am I reading this wrong?

224 gig capacity
80 gig per sec transfer

which means it can read its own drive in less than 2.75secs

can store 27 genomes,
but can read 100 genomes per sec.
that works out to 830 gigs per sec... maybe they meant 10 per sec, which would be 83 gigs per sec, seems more reasonable.

If you were to use 256meg sticks of DDR, it would probably cost about 70k just for the storage space, the drive itself and interface would be far far more than 150k. The mark up on parts like that are ridiculously high, to compensate for low sales, and research, a million for a harddrive? not impossible.

27 devided by total storeage capacity is roughly 8 gigs of space. That means each gnome takes up 8 (around 8.3 to be exact) gigs of space so your right in thinking that. I think they screwd up unless the were refering to internal transfer rate or something.
 


<< am I reading this wrong?

224 gig capacity
80 gig per sec transfer

which means it can read its own drive in less than 2.75secs

can store 27 genomes,
but can read 100 genomes per sec.
that works out to 830 gigs per sec... maybe they meant 10 per sec, which would be 83 gigs per sec, seems more reasonable.

If you were to use 256meg sticks of DDR, it would probably cost about 70k just for the storage space, the drive itself and interface would be far far more than 150k. The mark up on parts like that are ridiculously high, to compensate for low sales, and research, a million for a harddrive? not impossible. >>



150k? Three years from now this might be in our price range.
 
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