On 12 Mar 2008, at 8:15 am, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote:
On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 04:28:31PM +0000, Tim Cutts wrote:
Just thought you might like to read that as a break from the flame
wars.
Thanks, this kind of interruptions have indeed chance of breaking
flamewars :-)
However, you might be interested in http://times.debian.net, it is an
"advertisement" place, blog-like, for this kind of "good news" about
Debian. It reported about the very same news a couple of days ago:
http://times.debian.net/1225-Sanger-Institute-Debian-cluster-320-TB-swap-1.5-PB-storage
.
I do find Tony's description of it as "swap" a bit odd. I run the
thing, and I don't think of it as swap! It's more like /tmp; a
holding area for the raw image data from the sequencers, before it's
processed down to a more manageable form for long term storage. 320TB
is enough for two weeks' raw data, at the current resolution and
experimental procedure. It'll drop to one week when they double the
per-experiment data output later this year...
To be quite frank this stuff gives us, the admins, the screaming
heebie-jeebies, but in a fun way. The scientists have some really
fantastic ideas coming down the line, but the IT to support them is
quite a challenge! We're always on the lookout for people to join the
team - if anyone's interested in seriously large scale computing with
Debian and has good ideas for how to deal with petabytes of data and
thousands of CPUs, we want to hear from you! All areas are of
interest; SAN storage, networking, cluster filesystems, automating
systems administration, self-healing systems, interoperability with
Windows and Mac OS X, scientific code optimisation, you name it, we
have to deal with it.
Tim
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