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How many SSDs does it take to saturate PCIe Gen 3? Would you believe 16 drives?

Posted on August 6, 2012 by sleibson2

It’s now possible to conduct some interesting performance tests on real PCIe Gen 3 products and the video below shows you a PCIe Gen 3 RAID card talking to 16 SSDs, which is the number of drives needed to saturate … Continue reading →

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How many DRAMs does it take to populate a supercomputer? 746,496 plus a lot of hot water for cooling

Posted on July 25, 2012 by sleibson2

Jim Handy, The Memory Guy, posted a short blog about the 3-petaFLOP (peak) SuperMUC supercomputer at the Leibniz Supercomputing Centre on the outskirts of Munich, Germany. (The “MUC” in SuperMUC is the 3-letter code for the Munich airport. Now that’s … Continue reading →

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