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Supercomputer Gets A Memory Boost With 380 Petabytes Of Magnetic Tape
engadget.com 2 days, 11 hours agoRemember 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.
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Magnetic Tape Turns 60
forbes.com 1 week, 3 days agoThis year, 2012, digital plastic substrate magnetic tape turns 60 years old.?? The IBM 726 digital tape drive was introduced in 1952 to provide larger amounts of digital storage for computers, in particular IBM's 701 computer.?? Before the introduction of magnetic tape, digital storage for early computers used punched cards, paper tape as well as ...
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