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Written by Jon Kristofferson
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Sunday, 14 October 2007 |
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Sumo Computer was formed on the basis that there will always be a market for a powerful computer that is both low power and in a small package. We first started out with the Kruo Box from Revolution. It was the ideal platform for computer room applications that needed a headless server. We placed a high capacity disk drive in the Kuro Box and added Gentoo Linux and sold this small and powerful computer on the internet for a few hundred dollars.
We met with limit success in the marketing of the computer, but ended up with a very happy customer base. Sumo Computer configured the headless server with the clients information so that it was simply plug and play with their network. Gentoo Linux provided an excellent platform for the Kuro Box. With over 10,000 applications that would run on the PPC Kuro box is was a spectacular computer system. The Kuro Box was comming up short and Sumo Computer was being bootstrapped from the proceeds of a part time consulting business. To remedy these problems, Sumo Computer is looking for seed capital in the amount of a line of credit for 2 million dollars. |
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Last Updated ( Sunday, 14 October 2007 )
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Written by Jon Kristofferson
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Sunday, 14 October 2007 |
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Solid State disks are becomming cheaper and more functional than ever before. The SSD has a faster access time and read time than a regular hard disk. The SSD are inferior to hard disks in the speed of writing data to them, but this can be overcome by rewritting the low level routins to take advantage of the SSD write characteristics to improve the data write performance of the SSD to that of the hard disk dirve. SSD disk drives are more reliable, have wider operational temperature ranges and can sustain higher operation shock that a regular hard disk drive. By placing the SSD disks in a RAID 6 configuration two of the 5 SSD disks can fail without losing any operational integrity. This would allow a failed disk to be returned to Sumo Computer for replacement without completely compromising the disk array integrity. Within the next 18 months new FLASH memory technologies will provide SSD disk drives with greater capacity and higher speeds than today. |
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Last Updated ( Sunday, 14 October 2007 )
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Written by Jon Kristofferson
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Monday, 09 August 2004 |
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Yesterday all servers in the U.S. went out on strike in a bid to get more RAM and better CPUs. A spokes person said that the need for better RAM was due to some fool increasing the front-side bus speed. In future, busses will be told to slow down in residential motherboards. |
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Last Updated ( Sunday, 30 September 2007 )
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