[geeks] New Cray SSD

[Peter L. Wargo]

On Monday, April 8, 2002, at 05:21 , Bill Bradford wrote:

> http://www.cray.com/news/0204/xfersystem.html

O.K., Cray has lost it.

#1) "The Human Genome" in what form?  The actual base pairs don't take 
up that much space... (Bill knows why I can speak of this.)

#2) Wow!  A 1/4 terabyte.  Gee, an F15K does that with *main memory* 
now, and will soon (I would imagine) be at 1/2T.

It's a nice system, but using the "Human Genome" as a benchmark is like 
saying "It can transfer 1000 pictures of George Bush" per second.  45K 
JPEGs, or 3-megabyte TIFF files?

-Pete