Chris Maher Quotations

If they all go real fast at the same time you get a traffic jam and performance goes down.

We needed to achieve a 600 percent increase in file system performance.

You can imagine the kind of problems you can solve with this, like a tsunami warning device that would scrutinize huge amounts of information from the ocean and then analyze that quite quickly, or for homeland security applications, where you need to scan images of people and match those images against large databases.

We think that this technology has a lot of other applications. It can be applied to a whole range of problems that require tight linkage between data and computation -- tsunami warning devices (where you have a lot of data coming in and you have to make quick decisions), homeland security applications, medical imaging systems and so on. So there are a lot of other potential applications for this kind of technology.

It's not just 1,500 servers, but a collection of 1,500 servers that act like a single computer system.