Comments on: Fusion-IO: a little bit of Woz and a lot of silicon http://insidehpc.com/2009/02/26/fusion-io-a-little-bit-of-woz-and-a-lot-of-silicon/ HPC News Without the Noise for Supercomputing Professionals | insideHPC Sun, 19 May 2013 10:46:54 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.1 By: Web Designing Quotes http://insidehpc.com/2009/02/26/fusion-io-a-little-bit-of-woz-and-a-lot-of-silicon/#comment-160900 Web Designing Quotes Fri, 10 Apr 2009 14:11:04 +0000 http://insidehpc.com/?p=3855#comment-160900 We hope we’ll see large, successful online games leading the use of HPC in the business world over the coming years. We hope we’ll see large, successful online games leading the use of HPC in the business world over the coming years.

]]> By: John_j_Rambo http://insidehpc.com/2009/02/26/fusion-io-a-little-bit-of-woz-and-a-lot-of-silicon/#comment-154619 John_j_Rambo Sat, 14 Mar 2009 01:14:31 +0000 http://insidehpc.com/?p=3855#comment-154619 The Woz is just a figurehead. He hasn't actively done anything groundbreaking with hardware since the early 80's. he's just there to promote a bad product. I mean come on. Chief Scientist? What does a Chief Scientist who dances on network television do? I'm not just trying to besmirch the Woz. Quite the opposite. I like the Woz. I just don't like Fusion Io. I have had 4 of their drives and all 4 have failed. I'm on my fifth and it doesn't operate as fast as they claim. Personally I wouldn't get one, but I have to evaluate the dumb thing for work. The Woz is just a figurehead. He hasn’t actively done anything groundbreaking with hardware since the early 80′s. he’s just there to promote a bad product. I mean come on. Chief Scientist? What does a Chief Scientist who dances on network television do?

I’m not just trying to besmirch the Woz. Quite the opposite. I like the Woz. I just don’t like Fusion Io. I have had 4 of their drives and all 4 have failed. I’m on my fifth and it doesn’t operate as fast as they claim. Personally I wouldn’t get one, but I have to evaluate the dumb thing for work.

]]> By: FIO http://insidehpc.com/2009/02/26/fusion-io-a-little-bit-of-woz-and-a-lot-of-silicon/#comment-151237 FIO Fri, 27 Feb 2009 04:51:04 +0000 http://insidehpc.com/?p=3855#comment-151237 Tom's Hardware just published some interesting performance benchmarks on the ioDrive... http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/fusioinio-iodrive-flash,2140-7.html Tom’s Hardware just published some interesting performance benchmarks on the ioDrive…

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/fusioinio-iodrive-flash,2140-7.html

]]> By: Tom http://insidehpc.com/2009/02/26/fusion-io-a-little-bit-of-woz-and-a-lot-of-silicon/#comment-151126 Tom Thu, 26 Feb 2009 17:10:06 +0000 http://insidehpc.com/?p=3855#comment-151126 EVE Online is a multiplayer online role playing game, with a single game universe that currently supports over 50k simultaneous online users. They have some fairly extreme I/O and performance issues, and have been using solid state RamSANs for a while now. They recently got some more and upgraded their blade systems - have a look at http://www.eveonline.com/devblog.asp?a=blog&bid=632 Their decision to go down the RamSAN route a few years ago was pretty daring at the time, especially as they're a company based around one game - but it proved pretty visionary. I suspect we'll see large, successful online games leading the use of HPC in the business world over the coming years. Cheers, TOM EVE Online is a multiplayer online role playing game, with a single game universe that currently supports over 50k simultaneous online users. They have some fairly extreme I/O and performance issues, and have been using solid state RamSANs for a while now. They recently got some more and upgraded their blade systems – have a look at http://www.eveonline.com/devblog.asp?a=blog&bid=632

Their decision to go down the RamSAN route a few years ago was pretty daring at the time, especially as they’re a company based around one game – but it proved pretty visionary. I suspect we’ll see large, successful online games leading the use of HPC in the business world over the coming years.

Cheers,
TOM

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