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08-29-2008, 03:28 PM
Following Intel and its partners working extensively on solid-state storage technology, IBM's research staff at the IBM Hursley development lab in England and the Almaden Research Center in California, USA, have demonstrated performance results that outperform the world's fastest disk storage solution by more than 250%, according to the company.

Titled Project Quicksilver, an effort in which IBM coupled solid-state drives with its storage virtualization technology to achieve a sustained data transfer rate of more than 1 million input/output per second (IOPS), with a response time of less than one millisecond in a 4.1-terabyte rack of SSD storage. SSDs are being supplied by Fusion-IO.

"It's feasible that we could get it commercialized within 12 months," said Charlie Andrews, director of product marketing for IBM systems storage. "Right now we have a screaming (fast) system, but there's more work to be done in terms of long-term reliability and integration with systems applications. We don't want to get distracted with 'push the hardware.' We want to focus on the solution piece first," he added.

http://www.techpowerup.com/index.php?69926
enjoy :up:

m^2
08-29-2008, 03:35 PM
They bought several IODrives and put them in a server, yay...

Eson
08-29-2008, 03:37 PM
Oh, so Fusion-IO was not just a concept.

gallag
08-29-2008, 03:59 PM
It seems that lately all IBM do is tests and theory lol seriously search for IBM and most of it is "Look what we can possibly do in the future" threads http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/search.php?searchid=8168221

Cooper
08-29-2008, 04:00 PM
It seems that lately all IBM do is tests and theory lol seriously search for IBM and most of it is "Look what we can possibly do in the future" threads http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/search.php?searchid=8168221

If you haven't noticed IBM switched to development and solution providing and sells/sold all/most of manufacturing assets

ohmegaherz
08-29-2008, 04:02 PM
It seems that lately all IBM do is tests and theory lol seriously search for IBM and most of it is "Look what we can possibly do in the future" threads http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/search.php?searchid=8168221

Haha, that's funny actually :)

RPGWiZaRD
08-29-2008, 04:09 PM
4TB worth SSD storage setup, now we're talking, too bad today this would cost more than my parents house. :rofl:

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08-29-2008, 04:48 PM
I know this is still a proof of concept but if you read the article with the use of Fusion-IO SSD
they can deliver a product with in 12 months
generally when IBM shows a proof of concept it takes years for it to take it from concept to production
but think about it
80GB to 320GB range
with 700 MB/s Read 600 MB/s Write
is it expensive? Yes
but it is always like this the price of SSD has already gone down 40% -/+
it takes time for it to migrate form server parts to
to Desktop parts maybe even soon to Laptop parts
and don't forget desktop motherboard will soon have SAS (Serial attach SCSI) like the Asus P6T Deluxe which was only use in server systems
think of the possibility it has to start somewhere:yepp:
http://img.techpowerup.org/080829/2008-08-29_224848.jpg

tiro_uspsss
08-29-2008, 07:22 PM
They bought several IODrives and put them in a server, yay...

+1

must have been incredibly difficult to do :rolleyes:

Lestat
08-29-2008, 09:32 PM
700mb read
600mb write

oh god i think i just spooged...

IvanAndreevich
08-29-2008, 11:33 PM
Cool, it accesses the drive directly through the PCI-E bus. No SATA garbage.

m^2
08-30-2008, 02:30 AM
I just noticed...4.1TB=>They use 13 IODrives=>mobo has 13 PCIe slots. How about connectivity? Will it have onboard 10GbE/IB or 14th slot?