Cloud Storage

http://gizmodo.com/5828035/the-best-way-to-store-stuff-in-the-cloud

Really good article on cloud storage.

May want to take a look at the Google storage.

Tech Review: Thursday, July 21, 2011

How to build your own 135TB RAID6 storage pod for $7,384

http://www.extremetech.com/computing/90634-how-to-build-your-own-135tb-raid6-storage-pod-for-7384

• About $54 per TB
• With Raid 6, that is really $63 per TB
• This is a single unit.  
• Speed within it is good
• Raid 6:  1-2/15= 85%
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAID
• 85% of 135TB is about 117 TB
• $7384/117 = $63 per TB
• Redundant
• 45 3TB drive
• groups of 15 drives grouped together using RAID6 to create 39TB partition
• ext4 has a 16TB limit
• used logical volume manage (LVM) to access the full 39TB as a unit

IBM's Watson charts new frontiers for computer science

http://gcn.com/articles/2011/07/20/watson-opens-new-horizons-for-computer-science.aspx?s=gcndaily_210711

• David McQueeney, VP of software
• keynote speech at FOSE
• "a long-standing challenge in artificial intelligence to emulate a slice of human behavior"
• Understanding unfiltered language hard for computers
• Jeopardy
•  statistical analysis approach
• did not work
• uses structured data only 15% of the time
• built-in temporal reasoning
• find data through time and geospatial calculations
• weight evidence
• pre-loaded data
• not connected to internet
• Watson in 2007 could only answer Jeopardy questions 50% of the time
• DeepQA
• massively parallel probabilistic evidence-based architecture
• made of off-the-shelf components
• not technically a supercomputer
• 80 teraflops of processing power
• Won 71 percent of the time in 55 sparring matches

Mono, open-source .NET for Android, Linux and iOS, lives on

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/open-source/mono-open-source-net-for-android-linux-and-ios-lives-on/9265?alertspromo=&tag=nl.rSINGLE

http://www.mono-project.com/Main_Page

• support for SUSE-Attachmates' Linux Branch
• given mono new life

minicom

Using to connect to the serial cable to my test pogobox.  Let's me see what is going on in a plugbox boot up.

Referenced in the plugbox link:

http://plugapps.com/index.php5/Hardware:_Pogoplug_Pro_Serial

The log notes on June 6 and 7, 2011 talk about how I used it.

This is being used to work with running iRODS under plugbox for the NARA Advance Language Processing (ALP) work the Bill Underwood.

There should also be something

There are some other links I should have saved that clued me in that the power was coming from Pogoplug and not the USB port.

Not for a Pogoplug, but does go into some good detail:  http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&cd=11&ved=0CCwQFjAAOAo&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.neolics.com%2Fpdfs%2Fdku-5.pdf&ei=BUECTu2VDJOitge20aHIDg&usg=AFQjCNE6q5HNSrRW58jfsSvfdpOWKMHRqQ&sig2=uPCVDWt6LqxFwlzKb5ARxA

Just a short not at the bottom: http://www.pogoplugged.com/forum/thread/11515/How-To-Find-mkfs-jffs2-and-other-tools-on-Pogoplug/?page=2#1692

I was unable to find the article that I was looking for :-(

3TB Drive for $140 (< $50 per TB)

http://www.buy.com/prod/western-digital-my-book-essential-3tb-usb-3-0-external-desktop-hard/q/loc/101/217438518.html

The sweet spot seems to be moving to the 3TB drives.  With free shipping this is at $47 per TB.  Also this would increase our current system from  8TB per plugbox to 12TB per plugbox.

Pics for Mike

Mike said it didn't happen unless there are pictures.  So here are the pictures:

Five Hacked Pogoplugs

24 TB of disk storage

Drive to Buy

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B002BH4ONE/ref=pe_133010_19472470_pe_epc_t7

Seagate Expansion 2.0 TB USB 2.0 Desktop External Hard Drive ST320005EXA101-RK

http://www.amazon.com/Western-Digital-Elements-Desktop-External/dp/B002QEBMCI/ref=pd_rhf_p_t_1

Western Digital WD Elements 2 TB USB 2.0 Desktop External Hard Drive

Arch Linux: ntpdate 4.2.6-1 / rdate / date

http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=19145

Package is flagged out of date.

rdate should be replaced with ntpdate.

http://www.computerhope.com/unix/udate.htm

date

Linux: Creating Hard Disk and ISO images

http://www.backuphowto.info/linux-backup-hard-disk-clone-dd

• dd if=/dev/sda of=~/disk1.img

This work for an win2k disk to pull the ISO.  I was able to used the pulled ISO to build a virtual machine.

Pogoplug Mounting a stock Image as RW

http://www.plugapps.com/index.php5/PlugApps:Pogoplug_Pro_Chroot

The command is:

• mount -t ubifs -o rw,remount,relatime /

Re: Pogoplug V2 Hardware Description

Memory can be found in MB using:

 [root@Plugbox Vault]# free -m              total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached Mem:           247         31        215          0          3         13 -/+ buffers/cache:         15        231 Swap:            0          0          0 [root@Plugbox Vault]#  

On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 1:23 PM, Stan Hughes <hughes.stan@gmail.com> wrote:

General description of plug type hardware.

http://www.plugapps.com/index.php5/Portal:Hardware

Memory:  256M

Internal Storage:  128M

Description of Pogoplug V2 hardware.

http://www.plugapps.com/index.php5/Hardware:_Pogoplug_2

External

• 1 Front-Facing USB 2.0 Port
• 3 Rear USB 2.0 Ports
• 1 Gigabit Ethernet Port
• Regular Power cable (Not a brick)
• Power/Activity LED

Internal

• 256MB RAM
• 128MB NAND (32MB root partition, 92MB mtdblock3 partition)
• Marvell Sheeva CPU, 1.2GHz
• Serial port

iRODS seems to be running pretty well on this.  Run as server only without iCAT.

Pogoplug V2 Hardware Description

General description of plug type hardware.

http://www.plugapps.com/index.php5/Portal:Hardware

Memory:  256M

Internal Storage:  128M

Description of Pogoplug V2 hardware.

http://www.plugapps.com/index.php5/Hardware:_Pogoplug_2

External

• 1 Front-Facing USB 2.0 Port
• 3 Rear USB 2.0 Ports
• 1 Gigabit Ethernet Port
• Regular Power cable (Not a brick)
• Power/Activity LED

Internal

• 256MB RAM
• 128MB NAND (32MB root partition, 92MB mtdblock3 partition)
• Marvell Sheeva CPU, 1.2GHz
• Serial port

iRODS seems to be running pretty well on this.  Run as server only without iCAT.

2 TB Fantom Drive for $90

http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=5384378

Pogoplug V2 for $45

http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/searchtools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=5571184&csid=_25

I already have two, but we could buy a couple for work.

Trying to Get an ID for the Drive

http://linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2000/06/29/hdparm.html

Can get it using 'hdparm'

ArchLinux

Bases of Pogoplug Pogobox.

http://archlinux.me/

English Resources

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Category:Website_Resources

Setting Up a TCIP Socket

http://www.prasannatech.net/2008/07/socket-programming-tutorial.html

Some good code examples.  The python code looked the best, but tested with the 'C' code.

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/socket-140484.html

Some Oracle Java examples with dialog windows.

Steps to Building a Pogoplug iRODS: Prepare USB Boot Disk

The notes are a little sparse on the Pogoplug site.

Starting at this link:

http://www.pogoplug.com/home-en-developers-open-source.html

I believe that I am working with a Pgogoplug V2.

The Pogoplug Pro stuff using Linux kernel version 2.6.31.6.

The Pogoplug V2, Pogoplug Biz, and Pogoplug V1 using Linux kernel version 2.6.22.18.

This doesn't match what I read on the web.

http://www.plugapps.com/index.php5/Getting_Started:_Advanced

Pogoplug v2 (Pink/Gray)

http://www.plugapps.com/index.php5/Official_install_on_Pogoplug_V2_Pink

This is a real nice page and really what I need.

http://www.plugapps.com/index.php5/Log_in_to_Pogoplug_V2_Pink_over_SSH#SSH_login_to_original_Pogoplug_OS_on_GoFlex_Net.2FDockstar

Nice page on connecting to the SSH.  Seems to be up to date.  Yes, the page was updated Feb 10, 2011.

http://www.plugapps.com/index.php5/Official_install_on_Pogoplug_V2_Pink (cont.)

OK, part of this is to load the U-Boot boot loader onto the Pogoplug.

The format of the USB drive is being done from the Pogoplug itself.

.

Instead of creating the USB boot drive from the Pogoplug, I am going to be doing it from my linux box

You can't tell that the pogoplug processes have been killed.

What is the current system?

Linux Pogoplug 2.6.22.18 #44 Mon Aug 10 12:57:36 PDT 2009 armv5tejl unknown

Didn't add the boot loader.

Trying to reboot.

It doesn't seem to be coming back.

Testing the drive on my linux box.

Can't really test ARM code on an Intel box :-)

Pacman is the