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Without knowing more on the specific needs (I followed some of the threads to try to grok it), it would be hard to guess what they really need. [commercial alert] My company (Scala…

Thanks for the shout out! Without being a commercial, this high performance storage/analytics realm is what we focus on. We were demoing units like this: https://scalability.org/im…

I am setting a unit up now for a customer. In the years I've been working on them, the toolchain you need has not gotten much better ... no ... it went from complete crap to meh. Y…

Mine was in theoretical physics. I liked my advisor and the work. But she wasn't a go-getter on grant writing, or on paper writing. Many of my friends left and went to medical phys…

Quick plug for a company I've used: SSLmate ( http://sslmate.com ) makes cert purchase (for those whom need this) painless and fast. They use Comodo and Geotrust FWIW. I've had my …

I disagree. It is not the flavor of the month, like other things. There are excellent people available, and not a dwindling number of them at that. Module growth is strong, and acc…

A key component of the network side of our ( https://scalableinformatics.com ) SIOS layer is handled by Mojolicious running on Perl. Has been for a while (about 5 years). I've take…

While I acknowledge the humor intended, it is important to note that nipping incorrect conjectures before people waste time building edifices atop them, is an extremely good outcom…

Heh (on the jobs paused bits) ... most modern shared file systems are HA (or nearly HA) except when people build them cheaply. And then you get an effective RAID0. I was pointing o…

Actually Joyent's manta is quite similar in concept to what we've been doing for years (before manta came out). The idea is to build very capable systems and aggregate them. Not a …

[old HPC guy here, you kids get off my lawn!] ... well, then there is the issue of distributing that 2TB data set. I'll get to the Amdahl's law issue in a moment. This is a non-tri…

TL;DR version: Anything that is not your application won't use the resources in the same way, and will have very different properties (scaling, performance, contention, etc.) Longe…

Oh my gosh ... the fortran computed goto is back ... See http://www.lahey.com/docs/lfprohelp/F95ARComputed_GOTOStmt.h...

We've limit "working for free", to things that should help us close business against existing quotes with a commitment from the customer to execute on the quote in question. Our wo…

Been thinking about doing the customer version of this. [after a long indepth technical discussion with a qualified opportunity, quoting, resources allocated, ready to pull the tri…

Not YC backed, but we ( https://angel.co/scalable-informatics ) are offering our NVMe appliance at $1/GB usable. See https://scalableinformatics.com/forte for more info.

slowpath data appliances for buzzword dense storage: http://scalableinformatics.com/tortoise