Author: Steven Edwards
Date: 09:54:00 10/14/03
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On October 14, 2003 at 10:43:27, Robert Hyatt wrote: >What has happened was that I am now nfs-mounting a 1.7 terabyte RAID5 >array on the TB directory in my ftp box. My ftp machine only had about 500 >gigs for the ftp stuff, and after the last disk by Eugene, we were at 99.5% >capacity, almost 500 gigs. I now have 3x the storage, plus I still have >the original 500 gig RAID5 array as well. I hope the total 6 piece files >don't go beyond 2 terabytes, however. :) Let us all hope that the UAB bean counters don't notice the surge in ftp usage and start deducting bandwidth costs from Bob's paycheck. :) The day will come when most people will have a fiber optic bundle connected to their homes. Possibly this will occur before the eight man tablebases become feasible to calculate and store. I would guess it will take about thirty years or so to get near universal coverage; this is the same length of time it took to get from 120 bps modems (like I used in high school) to the 1 Mbps cable/DSL home services of today. Perhaps UAB could set up an on site North American CC tournament and have all the tablebases available to the competing programs. This would solve the latency problems of accessing remote tablebase data and, as a bonus, save the program operators the hernia inducing task of physically hauling disk arrays to the site.
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