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Dolphin Interconnect is headquartered in Oslo, Norway. U.S. operations are
located in Marlborough, Massachusetts. Dolphin maintains sales offices in
Boston, Los Angeles, Oslo, Germany and France and is represented internationally
by a network of resellers, distributors and integrators. Dolphin has deep
experience in developing leading and innovative computer interconnect
technology. Since the early 1990's the company has been instrumental in the
development of many of the industries most important standards including PCI,
SCI, StarFabric, and PCI Express. Dolphin has supplied its interconnect products
to major industry players including Siemens, Philips, Sony, Lexmark, Sun
MicroSystems, Lexmark, Boeing, and Thales.
see also:-
Dolphin
- editor mentions on StorageSearch.com
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In the early 1990s - when I was
publishing the SPARC Product
Directory - Dolphin (like many other oems at the time - including Sun) used
my publication's services to expand its presence in the SPARC systems market.
Dolphin's high speed remote memory interconnects (which were later called
InfiniBand) were so
good that Sun
bought the technology in 2000.
In March 2009 - Dolphin
launched the
StorExpress a
rackmount SLC
flash SSD with upto 960GB capacity. The
PCIe connected SSD has
R/W throughput upto 2,700MB/s and 50 microsecond access latency. Dolphin quotes
a figure of 270,000 IOPS but the initial datasheet doesn't break out IOPS
figures for reads and writes. The StorExpress can be located upto 10m from the
host bus using copper cable and 300m with optical fibre.
In April
2009 - MAGMA
and Dolphin jointly
announced
they have collaborated to develop an improved version of the latter's
previously announced 2U StorExpress
PCIe SSD product line,
which will ship next month. Capacity options include 0.5TB (under $20K), 1TB and
2TB. It achieves 270K read and write IOPs (512 bytes to 4KB blocks) and up to
2.8GB/s of sustained bandwidth. Latency is less than 50µS. The StorExpress
enclosure can be positioned 1,000 feet away from the host server using fiber.
In May 2009 - Dolphin's
CEO, Tim Miller shares his
SSD Bookmarks
with readers of
StorageSearch.com.
In
December 2009 - Dolphin
announced that it
intended
to merge with Best
Media AS (an ISP based in Norway - which operates IPTV, IP telephony, internet
and mobile phone services).
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the Problem with
Write IOPS
the "play it again Sam" syndrome |
Editor:- Flash SSD "random
write IOPS" are now similar to "read IOPS" in many of the
fastest SSDs.
So
why are they such a poor predictor of application performance?
And
why are users still buying
RAM SSDs which cost
9x more than SLC? - even when the IOPS specs look similar. |
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This article tells you
why the specs got faster - but the applications didn't. And why competing SSDs
with apparently identical benchmark results can perform completely
differently. ...read
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