17 Mar
2005
17 Mar
'05
9:42 a.m.
Guy Sotomayor wrote:
On Thu, 2005-03-17 at 00:32 -0800, Tom Jennings
wrote:
This reminds me that I read not too long ago that many of the super
computer labs ship PCs between sites because it's *faster* to ship a
working PC with 1TB of disk containing data than it is to transfer it
over a long haul network (ie FedEx will get it there in ~24hrs...think
about the bandwidth required to transfer 1TB in ~24hrs). Not to mention
a whole lot cheaper! It also scales well!! :-)
We have a client who owns what they call a "fleet" of SNAP servers
that rotate between San Antonio, TX, Delaware (I think), and California.
I haven't been involved with that contract in 3 years, but at that
time they had about 16TB on the road on any given weekday.
Doc