Remember the Cray XK6 at the University of Illinois that drives the National Science Foundation's Blue Waters project. Well, it looks like it's getting a little memory upgrade, sorta. We're not talking a slick new SSD here, or even a sweet NAS, all that computational power requires nothing less than. tape. Okay, so it's actually a full storage infrastructure, and some of it - 25 petabytes no less - will be disk-based. The rest - a not insignificant 380 petabytes - will be the good old magnetic stuff.
Engadget, Supercomputer gets a memory boost with 380 petabytes of magnetic tape
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