[Info-vax] Marketing ideas for VSI ?

[Bill Gunshannon]

On 12/15/18 11:28 AM, Stephen Hoffman wrote:
> 
> Bill Gunshannon circa December 14, 2018 9:45 PM
> 
>> ... was network latency and that has really become less of an issue 
>> today...
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> Absent the advent of linkages via entanglement or wormhole, the physics 
> used with cluster network links hasn't changed.
> 
>  From ~six years ago, there can be surprises lurking: 
> https://superuser.com/a/419167
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> And latency visually: 
> https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~rcs/research/interactive_latency.html
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> If you're in the same or nearby data center, mirroring to remote server 
> memory can be substantially faster than mirroring to local SSD.
> 
> 
> 

Well, I was talking real world rather than theoretical.
20 years ago I used to connect to a machine in Texas A&M
from the University of Scranton.  Character echo was not
just noticeable it was measurable with a stop watch.
Today, there would be no noticeable delay at all unless
there was a major network outage somewhere between us.

bill