Referring to this article, it appears that there is some issue with an important subsystem in the Linux kernel. The SCSI target code, specifically the new implementation pulled in by James Bottomley is the LIO framework based upon work of Nicolas Bellinger and Rising Tide Systems. This was chosen over the SCST implementation, which continues to soldier on. We did have a dog in that race, and would have preferred to have seen SCST included due to our familiarity with it.

That was our best SCxy show. Ever. Inclusive of all 17-ish years I’ve attended (getting to be something of a geezer I guess). The 60 bay JackRabbit system got lots of attention. That we are putting the Calxeda backplane and energy cards in, come January time frame, brought many people in to talk about this. Big data was a one of the huge topics. I’ve been saying Big Data is not just Hadoop.

Listen to their definition between 3 and 6 minutes in. The storage performance and IO performance, and networking is extraordinarily critical to these problems. Which has been the set of problems we’ve been focusing on for a long time. Also worth noting that Addison Snell nails it on HPC and big data relationships. They are debating definitions and other aspects, but at the end of the day, the idea is that HPC has been a set of techniques, designs, and platforms upon which we’ve been banging on big data problems for decades.

Upfront: This was the best SC conference we have ever participated in. From an interest level, traffic level, and various meetings with partners, customers, and others. And to the folks who might be reading this whom we missed, or had to cut short conversations due to timing, please feel free to call/email us. We are reachable via the usual methods. Everyone marveled at the 60 bay chassis. Oddly enough, I never had time to set up the benchmarks on it.

Ok, beobash rocked. As usual, Lara at Xandmarketing, Doug Eadline did an absolutely awesome job. For those I bumped into, hello again. I apologize if I didn’t spend more time with you … especially my readers … I was operating on fumes at that point. Please don’t hesitate to introduce yourself during the day at the booth (4154) at SC12. Got up early, got into the booth, did an interview video with Rich B at InsideHPC.

I know, I know, I really should wait until the drive build is done. I know I should do that. [root@Mj?lnir ~]# df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/md0 89G 6.8G 77G 9% / tmpfs 127G 0 127G 0% /dev/shm /dev/sdc 48T 393G 47T 1% /data/3 /dev/sdb 48T 395G 47T 1% /data/2 /dev/sdd 33T 367G 33T 2% /data/4 /dev/sda 48T 374G 47T 1% /data/1 I called it Mj?

Minor issue. We changed IP addresses at work recently. A larger block of public facing IPs for more functionality. And in doing so, we updated almost everything correctly. Yes, almost everything. Almost. Everything. The one, minor … trivial … thing we left unchanged … broke our support site sending reply emails correctly. They were rejected about 50% of the time, as they came in on the wrong port/ip. So for the last week we’ve been sending extra emails.

Saw this blog post with a cartoon in it. [ ](http://www.rscottillustration.com/image/lucky-rabbits-foot) Those are armed rabbits. Sorta like JackRabbits. And that might not be the only definition of “ARMed” out there. Heavily ARMed JackRabbits. Not that I’m hinting at anything. Maybe people should just visit our booth 4154 at #SC12 …

is drinking your own koolaid, consuming your own product, believing the wishful thinking that underlies your most serious predictions. Like this. Just like in catastrophic AGW, there’s one single chart that belies all the claims as to how “well” the “stimulus” package did. Its a damning chart. Here it is. [ ](http://www.aei-ideas.org/2012/11/is-this-as-good-as-it-gets-novembers-dismal-new-normal-jobs-report/) And worse, if you look at how the recovery compares to others … its not going very well at all.

… this is called being a mensch. Well played Michael Ferns, well played (in an respectful way). And welcome to Michigan and the Wolverines.