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quick look see at fractal computing.

On Wed, 22 Feb 2006, Kathleen wrote:

We have limited the query size initially in order to manage a surge in
usage, which we experienced today.  If you want to really blast us, please
contact Nick Robertson at nick (at) massivelyparallel.com.  He'll get ya hooked
up so you can test our system with a massive query.  You can also talk with
one of our mega users who blasts us at least once a quarter.

Cool. It would be nice to see some real figures. I had guessed my test that only showed a fairly paltry 2.6x speed up compared against a badly configured single server was not quite right. Along with only 62% of the default number of hits being returned I knew there must have been a mistake...

I'm sure than in an ideal world your approach ought to totally smoke a single server on the end of a damp piece of ethernet to a fairly heavily laden NFS server?

Am I right in thinking that there are what, 250+ servers on your backend farm no? I guess not all of them are dedicated to the portal mind you.

I did notice that my little test job started instantly, so you must either have the work queue really well managed or I was lucky at the time and it was totally empty. Good to hear that you had a surge in usage today,, you got my attention at any rate.

As I mentioned, I'm sure that the vendor agnostic teams (of which there are quite a few) that hang out on this list would love to give your method a good solid workout.

That's if you are up for some compare and contrast. On the other hand there could be some real good marketing in there at the end ;-)

I'm certainly not one of those chaps I'm afraid, but it would be good to see some real numbers as they come out, it could end up being very useful.

I just wanted to get the ball rolling really, I'll duck out of the thread for now.

Best,

j.
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