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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">I would love to be able to put together
big filesystems using commodity parts in easily-fabbed enclosures
and various F/OSS bits and pieces so as to be able to tell the
EMCs, NetApps, etc. of the world to pound sand. Never liked
working with that stuff nor their vendors.<br>
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On 1/2/14, 6:07 PM, Lightner, Jeff wrote:<br>
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squared is typically just called EMC by most employees and
customers so I think you’re talking about the same company.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Around
here we have other choice names for EMC but that’s a long
story. :-) Their service in recent years often made me
think EMC was an acronym for:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Evidently<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On 1/2/2014 8:21 AM, Sean Kilpatrick
wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p
style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;-qt-block-indent:0;-qt-user-state:0">You
are asking the wrong person.
<o:p></o:p></p>
<p
style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;-qt-block-indent:0;-qt-user-state:0">The
company is EMC^2 (that's EMC squared).<o:p></o:p></p>
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moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://www.emc.com">www.emc.com</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p
style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;-qt-block-indent:0;-qt-user-state:0">They
provide (very) large file systems for large clusters and
need programmers. Obviously petabye file systems are going
to be distributed across multiple disc arrays on multiple
machines in a cluster and, sometimes, spread out among
multiple clusters.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p
style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;-qt-block-indent:0;-qt-user-state:0">I
know they >mostly< use C, but that some bits and
pieces are written in other languages, including C++,
Python, and probably a half-dozen others.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p
style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;-qt-block-indent:0;-qt-user-state:0">If
anyone has the requisite skills (or thinks he/she may have
those skills), I can put you in touch with my son, who
manages a team of software engineers. He is NOT a PHB.<o:p></o:p></p>
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I know that EMC (dunno about EMC2) is looking to build some
new petabyte capable filesystems that focus on storing
metadata of several specific industries (bioinformatics is one
of them). Big data experience isn't as relevant for that.<br>
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