I finally received some new servers in the Atmos lab and…well, I thought I’d share with you!!! These are Cisco C200 M1 servers and they’re loaded out in the following config:
Just was getting some thoughts out about using GPGPUs (nVidia’s Tesla and Fermi products, ATI’s FireStream) for handling some of the menial cloud-based operations (metadata calc, metadata location servicing, offload, etc.) that we have as part of any type of cloud file system.
So, what are your thoughts? The capacity to further collapse x86 commodity platforms by utilizing the extreme amount of processing capability present within these GPGPUs and coupling optimized OpenCL or CUDA routines into the standard CFS processing stack.
I figured I’d start the year off right and give all of you a bit of an overview on the Dell R610 hardware that I use in my test and development work. Got 6 of these guys in the other day so, I shot a quick video overview of the hardware and specs for you to take a look at.
I don’t mention the HBAs or CNAs that I use (Brocade, Emulex, and Qlogic) because it does vary a bit depending on the loadout that I’m working with. Common denominator to everything, though, is VMware ESX4i.
If there’s anything else you want me to provide an overview on, please let me know!
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