IBM is one of the main drivers for information technology research and development company in the United States is always the work of the next generation of computer systems and components. It also has a number of machines that are designed, constructed and installed in a list of the fastest supercomputers in the world. IBM is the unnamed customer that needs a new supercomputer with a record amount of storage space.
The storage system, the IBM team has built many times larger than most existing storage systems - has a capacity of 120 petabytes enormous. It is 120 million gigabytes of storage space. Review reports that the repository storage technologies would be big enough to hold about one billion files. To achieve this capability, the storage system uses 200 000 conventional hard drives that work together.
Storage space needed for super computers that work in very complex simulations, and industries such as weather and climate modeling, oil and genetic research industries. Most amazing factoid about 120 petabytes of storage system is that it could be 60 copies of most of the backup system files on the Web, page 150 000 000 000 Internet Archive Wayback Machine runs.
"This system is 120 petabytes a group of extreme right now, but after a few years might be all the cloud as it is," Bruce Hills Berg, director of IBM storage, the study says. Only by looking at the names, types and other characteristics of files stored in the system consumes about two petabytes of capacity. "
Many things must pass a large storage system. Things like an effective combination of 200 000 physical units, and allows a super computer will continue to work when one or more stations are down are the things that must be addressed. IBM uses a system in which when the drive fails, data is written to the slow replacement of two super-computer will continue to operate normally. Hills Berg maintains that the result is that the car should not lose any information on the millions of years, and without compromising performance.
Combing the system with mass storage chip that IBM is working on bringing a neuro-awesome machine.