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External References• Two major papers on intelligent bricks will be published at the IBMJournal of R&D, Special Issue on Exploratory Systems, April 2006• Numerous references on the web– Google ibm intelligent bricks or ibm icecube• Computerworld First Horizon Award, 2005ARC External Website, Intelligent Bricks, 2005
Summary• Google keywords: ibm icecube or ibm intelligent bricks• It is NOT about packaging, it’s about software, hardware and management ofbrick based architectures• Has biologically inspired system concepts ( bricks = cells )• Prototype 3x3x3 system : Fully functional since 1/2005• Software: Kybos+GPFS+Operating Environment• Platform for Storage and Data-intensive Computing– Extremely scalable (multi Petabytes)– Easy to manage• Customer question #1 ‘when can one buy it’ ?Thank you ! The Intelligent Bricks teamARC External Website, Intelligent Bricks, 2005
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Project Scope• IceCube/Kybos or
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Storage Enterprise Customer’s Top
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ARC External Website, Intelligent B
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Brick Architectures for Simplicity
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Generic 3-D BrickNo connectors, fan
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Storage Brick - Prototype20 cmARC E
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Storage Brick Block Diagram (Protot
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Multi-Petabyte Design Mockup960 Bri
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Fluid CoolingARC External Website,
Page 26: Reliability Concepts in Brick Archi
Page 29 and 30: Reliability through Redundant Compo
Page 31 and 32: Red brick about to fail…livedeada
Page 33 and 34: Systems without on-going maintenanc
Page 35 and 36: Reliability ProjectionsARC External
Page 37 and 38: Reliability via “Distributed RAID
Page 39 and 40: Distributed RAID Scheme Reliabiliti
Page 41 and 42: Observation• Not everyone wants v
Page 43 and 44: Intelligent Bricks’s 3-D MeshNo (
Page 45 and 46: PerformanceARC External Website, In
Page 47 and 48: Cube 3D-Network PerformanceCube Pea
Page 49 and 50: Brick-to-Brick Capacitive Coupling
Page 51 and 52: Capacitive Coupler Differential Pai
Page 53 and 54: EMSim Coupler Frequency Responses0-
Page 55 and 56: “Deliberately Noisy” TestbedARC
Page 57 and 58: Practical Experience in Prototype
Page 59 and 60: Software for Intelligent Bricks (to
Page 61 and 62: Operating Environment• Linux (2.4
Page 63 and 64: Higher Level Software today (2005)
Page 65 and 66: Background: What is GPFS ?IBM’s s
Page 67 and 68: Adminstrative Cost ReductionESS37 d
Page 69 and 70: Kybos Self-management Monitor (Simu
Page 71 and 72: Intelligent Brick Futures• Intell
Page 73 and 74: Modular Cubes @ 1/4 PB each (2007)A
Page 75: Compute Brick (conceptual)40 Gb/s c
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