September 16, 2013, Storage Developer Conference, Santa Clara, CA—Fred Knight described the changes and updated in the main storage protocols. The standards process is fairly long and involved, so some of the changes are still under review. The T10 committee is reviewing over 18,000 comments on SCSI commands, SCSI/ATA translation, SCSI express, and Serial Attach…
September 2013. As new products enter the market for both home and clinic-based use for wellness care, they are all converging on the idea of simple operation. For hospital and traditional medical equipment lots of information accompanies the devices and there can be many steps taken for them to complete their tests and even function….
September 10, 2013, IDF, San Francisco—Brian Krzanich declared that it is different being at IDF as the CEO for Intel. Nevertheless, the company continues to move along and innovate. The increasing rates of change and innovation now exceed those of the last 30 years. The company’s vision and strategy is to continue on the 40-year…
September 11, 2013, Intel Developers Forum, San Francisco—The SCSI Trade Association is updating their specifications to match the performance of SSDs in the storage systems. The multiple layers of storage can all communicate over a single protocol over the various transport layers. The SAS spec now supports 12Gbps and 1.2M IOPS to allow for the…
August 22, 2013, Hot Interconnects Symposium, San Jose, CA—Xiaoyi Lu from Ohio State presented concepts on parallel replication to improve Hadoop distributed file systems. Their work looks at the constraints built into the file system. High performance computing apps are moving to datacenters with over 400k cores. Data is transferred using message passing through the…
August 14, 2013, Flash Memory Summit, Santa Clara, CA—Swapna Yasarapu from STEC moderated a panel on SSD use cases and implementation. Panel members were George Crump from Storage Switzerland, Bruce Moxon from STEC, and Sean Stead from STEC. Stead provided an overview of flash in storage, including platforms and form factors, as well as the…
August 14, 2013, Flash Memory Summit, Santa Clara, CA—Ed Dollar from Micron described the possible future of storage in the ’20 datacenter. The issues of big data and ongoing changes in hardware and software will cause the datacenter to look significantly different from what it looks like today. Data volumes and types have grown at…
July 24, 2013, Siggraph, Anaheim, CA—John Peddie from JP Research provided a market overview and held a panel discussion on the democratization of CG tools. One difficulty for the industry is that the Siggraph conference is declining over the past decade, for both exhibitors and attendees. At the same time, the value of CG apps…
July 11, 2013, Motion Tracking Developers’ Conference, San Francisco—David Troup from Xensr talked about the telemetry needs for extreme sports. This area calls for much more than just adding sensors and an RF link to a person or a piece of equipment. Data for extreme sports have special requirements. The gross quantification of data has…
July 11, 2013, Motion Tracking Developers’ Conference, San Francisco—Herbie Kim and Josh Rabinowitz from Articulate described their efforts in integrating sensors into remote patient monitoring and assistance packages. They consider a combination of sensors and stimulators can provide benefits that exceed the contributions of either separately. As the population ages, we are seeing two disparate…