Week 5: Clear

I watched lectures up to disk storage and I found the ones I watched to be fascinating. In particular the lecture on processors, 80 cores wow. I found it hard to believe that there could be that many any time soon. I looked into it, sure enough 80 cores, this website talks about the cores and how they may have some problems after 16 cores with a diminishing return. The article was written in 2007, so some of that may have changed since. But still, I have an Intel Dual and it works just fine for what I use my computer for. I could not imagine what programs would be running to need 80 cores.

I have a 700GB external hard drive and I have taken all of about 50GB of space. There is an article talking about the NSA building a facility to house a yottabyte of storage, a warning if you read the article it talks about all this big-brother stuff. A yottabyte is 1,000,000,000,000,000GB of storage, holy s*&%. According to Wikipedia site on Yottabytes, as of 2009 the internet contained close to 500 exabytes which is two steps down from a yottabyte. Right now I just find that much storage hard to believe, ask me again in about two weeks and I may have a different answer for you.