November 27, 2012, Server Design Summit, Santa Clara, CA—Akhil Docca from Future Facilities presented concepts for using data from the servers to control the cooling for the systems. Some of these data are already used for monitoring and control, so this is mostly a redirection of data from other purposes to cooling. Current chips have [...]
May 22, 2012, Open Source Business Conference, San Francisco—Colin Bodell from Amazon illustrated the value of finding solutions for internal problems and then sharing the solutions with others. First, an example of the fortuitous results of sharing solutions. About 900 years ago, governments formed in France, Germany, and Spain. The taxing authorities decided to place [...]
We talked with Samsung about their various memory product lines. The constant drivers for changes are the demands for higher performance, higher capacity, and in of growing importance, lower power. The specific product lines we discussed were DDR three, SSD, and mobile memories. At the high performance and of the spectrum, DDR-3 memories are used [...]
January 18, 2011, Common Platform Technology Forum, Santa Clara, CA—the three keynote speakers—Gary Patton of IBM, Chia Song Hwee of Global Foundries, and Stephen Woo of Samsung Electronics—responded to questions after their presentations at a press lunch. Patton summarized the key points, that 32 and 28 nm production is now on-line. They have integrated hi-K [...]
September 29, 2010, Digital Video Expo, Pasadena, CA– Bruce Master, Senior program manager, IBM Corp. talked about “digital video storage – transport – archives for media and entertainment”. Media and entertainment are seeing massive increases in storage requirements, as HD requires work on this capacity standard definition, and 3-D is double that of HD. As [...]
August 3, 2010, Creative Storage Conference, Culver City, CA—The new digital workflows are forcing change in the structure of a production company. The average video runs between 200-800 GB per project. The average editor processes about 8 TB of data, mostly held on Firewire (IEEE 1394) RAID arrays. The smaller producers have no IT staff [...]
