What is the idea behind getting rid of the disk drive?
xingdaz
Disk drives are slow and has unpredictable latency for access. I don't know how they boot the OS on startup but they must have a way to load the kernel into each node.
randomthread
Disk drives can also be a significant source of failures. By offloading storage to a network storage implementation, disk failures can be encapsulated by the network storage and prevent disk failures from affecting the supercomputer's downtime.
What is the idea behind getting rid of the disk drive?
Disk drives are slow and has unpredictable latency for access. I don't know how they boot the OS on startup but they must have a way to load the kernel into each node.
Disk drives can also be a significant source of failures. By offloading storage to a network storage implementation, disk failures can be encapsulated by the network storage and prevent disk failures from affecting the supercomputer's downtime.