So the day job released some PR. I paid attention to the content, but not to the title. Unfortunately should have. We set records for the 2.8 version of kdb+. The title suggests otherwise. Call this a Mea Culpa, as I had approved the content before I saw the new results with the 3.1 version. So the PR went out, and I think I’ve got egg on my face :( .

Off to Chicago tonight to present at the STAC Summit tomorrow. Then meeting customers on Wednesday, phone calls, and a partner event. Thursday, back to Detroit, then I fly out to NYC to meet customers on Friday. Back Saturday morning for our national karate tournament (and I am very behind in my practice) for our style. Then Sunday back to NY to present Monday at the STAC Summit in NYC. Back to Detroit on Tuesday, then Friday, in theory, I have a 10 days off for vacation.

Link here. Don’t want to tax ALL businesses … out of business? Just some of them? Are you mad? Are you freaking kidding me? Pulling my leg? Very sad. Very very sad. The government should be seeking to reduce taxes to make sure businesses grow, and hire, and spend. Mr. President, the entire role of government in business should be to get out of the way, lest you slow down growth, employment, and spending.

[Update] That didn’t take long. Looks like the government is angry about all of this. The leak of the leaks that is. And they are going to try to find the culprit, and prosecute them. Any “Mea Culpas” from them on the fact that this is … I dunno … illegal? Er … no. Most transparent admin … evuh??? I read something last week which made me laugh. It read “tomorrow is Thursday, time for a new scandal”.

Though the 11 was changed to a 12. That is being reverted. Day job home page is here. As it scrolls by, think “Massive, unapologetic, firepower”. Writ large. This would pair well with any top500 or !top500 computing system. More to come … more … to come !!!

See here. Take home message Delivered the fastest response time in the NBBO benchmark compared to all publicly disclosed results to date for all systems (STAC-M3.?1.1T.NBBO.LAT2) Delivered the fastest WRITE results compared to all publicly disclosed results for all systems (STAC-M3.v1.1T.WRITE.LAT2). Among systems using kdb+ 2.8: This system set new records for 5 of the 17 benchmarks (STAC-M3.?1.1T.NBBO.LAT2, STAC-M3.v1.1T.WRITE.LAT2, STAC-M3.?1.10T.STATS-AGG.LAT2, STAC-M3.?1.10T.STATS-UI.LAT2,STAC-M3.?1.1T.STATS-UI.LAT2). Delivered over 2x the performance of the previous best published results for the MKTSNAP benchmark, among systems using spinning disk or flash storage.

… finalizing the text on this, link up soon (its up but hidden from view). The response from people who’ve seen it has been awesome. More very soon. Today, I hope.

I’ve got a few things to add to the report today, and then we will have the STAC group publish the report. Performance is … er … very … very … good. A few tests which won’t favor our design as compared to massively wide striped disks were better on other kit. But I am blown away at how our little 2 socket server did in comparison to other, better known kit.

This took far longer than it should have. This was in part due to my initial decision (since changed) to use dbndns at two sites (one internal, one in the cloud). The TL;DR version. dbndns and its parent project, djbdns, are a royal pain to get up, operational, stable. I tried the packaged versions, the source, etc. Several different distributions (CentOS 6.x , Ubuntu 12.04, …). 4 weeks into this mess, I asked myself the critical question.

I am not a huge fan of the science and accompanying rhetoric around “global warming.” And its not because the Koch brothers (or any other weapons grade conspiracy theory idiocy on the part of certain activist elements of our society). Its because the “science”, or more precisely, the theory that currently holds sway in large swaths of academia, and public policy circles appears to generate testable hypotheses that are not matched against empirical observations.