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A Conversation with Jim Gray
by k at 9:11 am EDT, Sep 17, 2003

] TeraScale SneakerNet

hah!

this guy has some interesting points on disk storage.

i think we're getting to a point where user interaction with the disk will be minimal anyway, so i'm not sure access time will be so critical in the future, which underscores Gray's point. When, instead of going to your "Documents/Work/Reports/09/03/" folder and opening a file, you just tell your knowledge management agent that you want your september reports, the underlying data access model becomes less relevant. If it takes a bit longer for the agent to find it and put it RAM, so what. Just means the agent has to be smart about how *it* stores an manages data (probly with a large dbase), which is it's job anyway.


 
RE: A Conversation with Jim Gray
by bucy at 10:05 am EDT, Sep 17, 2003

inignoct wrote:
] ] TeraScale SneakerNet
]
] hah!
]
] this guy has some interesting points on disk storage.

Gray has spoken at CMU before; we're working on basically all of this stuff at the Parallel Data Lab at CMU.


A Conversation with Jim Gray
by Jeremy at 1:22 pm EDT, Oct 4, 2003

Sit down, turn off your cellphone, and prepare to be fascinated. Clear your schedule, because once you've started reading this interview, you won't be able to put it down until you've finished it.

Gray: We have an embarrassment of riches in that we're able to store more than we can access. Capacities continue to double each year, while access times are improving at 10 percent per year. So, we have a vastly larger storage pool, with a relatively narrow pipeline into it. We're not really geared for this.

Gray, on databases: Two groups start; one group uses an easy-to-use system, and another uses a not-so-easy-to-use system. The first group gets done first, and the competition is over. The winners move forward and the other guys go home. That situation is now happening in the Web services space. People who have better tools win.

In the next decade, disks will replace tapes, and disks will have infinite capacity. Period. This will dramatically change the way we architect our file systems. There are many more questions opened by this than resolved.

... My co-workers at Microsoft are [taking] a shot at implementing Vannevar Bush's memex. If they pull it off, it will be a revolution in the way we use storage.


 
 
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