Author: Vincent Diepeveen
Date: 10:04:20 10/14/03
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On October 14, 2003 at 12:54:00, Steven Edwards wrote: >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. from 120 to 1 million is a factor 10000 only. So that won't be enough for 8 men. > >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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