Re:Google Cloud Storage Nearline graduates to general availa...
by trhway on Thursday July 23, 2015 @02:38PM
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it i kind of topologically clear - with linear growth of the number of nodes, the fabric network architectures have to grow more than linear (and you have to have fabric if you'd like to have performance growing linear with number of nodes - otherwise there wouldn't be any sense in adding nodes after some point)
“Networking is a red alert situation for us right now,” explained Hamilton. “The cost of networking is escalating relative to the cost of all other equipment. It is Anti-Moore. All of our gear is going down in cost, and we are dropping prices, and networking is going the wrong way. That is a super-big problem, and I like to look out a few years, and I am seeing that the size of the networking problem is getting worse constantly. At the same time that networking is going Anti-Moore, the ratio of networking to compute is going up.”
http://www.enterprisetech.com/2014/11/14/rare-peek-massive-s...