Companies have requirements for backup of 100 terabytes - this needs a very big pipe. While this trial was carried out in laboratory conditions, Bond claims that many of Cisco’s customers already use FCIP for replication between distant data centres.
The 750 suits come just a few days after Internet researchers released a study that found peer-to-peer traffic had remained constant or risen up to the early days of 2004, despite the pressure of recording industry lawsuits.
As a reference, the print collection in the US Library of Congress comes to about 10 terabytes of information, according to the How Much Information study from UC Berkeley. The report also found that 400,000 terabytes of email get produced per year.
The average printer releases toner particles which can get deep into the lungs and cause respiratory problems and cardiovascular trouble, said Morawska's team, part of the International Laboratory for Air Quality and Health, and specialists in...
Roadrunner, to be delivered to the US Department of Energy's Los Alamos National Laboratory in summer 2008, will be capable of performing more than a quadrillion operations, or a petaflop, when it's fully operational.
This year - the 31st time the list has been put together - the honour of top supercomputer goes to IBM's Roadrunner, which is housed at the US Department of Energy's Los Alamos National Laboratory. Last year's most powerful computer, Lawrence...