What would you do with a Yottabyte?

[cloakable]

Well? (http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/Y/yottabyte.html)

I personally would download every website that interested me, have a massive music collection, and have every game I want installed.

What would you do?

[ApeTheDog]

I think I would do the exact same thing you would do with it: Use it.

[Miss Anthropic]

Hit it hard enough to kill it to make sure it didn't get me first! Oh, wait, this yottabyte thing is a computer thing........Oh, I get it. 8O

[ApeTheDog]

So is hitting things hard enough to kill them the way you deal with all the things that are unknown to you? I probably wouldn't want to be introduced to you...

[Warrior413]

I would upload/download everything known to mankind so I could use it as my own personal library/internet-in-a-box. And then I'd play videogames.

[Claverhouse]

Well? (http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/Y/yottabyte.html)

I personally would download every website that interested me, have a massive music collection, and have every game I want installed.
Sounds reasonable.

Particularly if you had an archive of this site so researchers could explore for the murdered posts of yesteryear.



Claverhouse :ph34r:

[garak]

cat /dev/zero > /tmp/wonder_how_long_this_will_take

[jimkopelli]

Yottas are freaking huge... I had to back four prefixes before I saw something I recognized.Last time I checked, the entire content of the WWW could be measured in terabytes... and was far less than a petabyte... and yottabytes are orders of magnitude greater than that... I don't think it'd be possible to fill one of those up in a lifetime, given that all you put on it was new stuff... *babbles on...*
(knowing full well that predictions about computers are made to be broken...)

[Hawkon]

(...) Last time I checked, the entire content of the WWW could be measured in terabytes... and was far less than a petabyte (...)


I hope you mean HTML pages only, cause there's A LOT of pictures, videos and other software laying around on the internet. That's including underground warez on the web.

[Geoff]

Start leasing out 100GB of photo diskspace on the web each for about $5 a month, go home.. rest up and buy some more yottabytes.

-Geoff

[Ascending]

At the time I'm quite happy with my 0.45 of a Terrabyte.

[Miss Anthropic]

So is hitting things hard enough to kill them the way you deal with all the things that are unknown to you? I probably wouldn't want to be introduced to you...
C'mon, that was an attempt at humor. I work in an entomology lab, a Yottabyte sounded like a good name for some sort of bug or something....so it is true that the sense of humor of an INTP goes misunderstood.....by fellow INTPs as well... :whistle:

[melancholeric]

Good point. I don't think ApeTheDog was completely serious either.

( Might be wrong though... )

[Polystom]

Yottabytes could enslave all the nerds (possibly) but can yottabytes travel at numerous multiples of c?

[jimkopelli]

I hope you mean HTML pages only, cause there's A LOT of pictures, videos and other software laying around on the internet. That's including underground warez on the web.

The figure I saw might possibly (and stupidly) have excluded the porn industry. I'm pretty sure it was a fairly specific definition... it didn't include downloadables that you needed something else to open. They were probably just guessing a number that sounded right anyway.

[CoHo]

Sell it and get a yottahertz processor?

[Sackanaka]

Sell it and get a yottahertz processor?
:D *imagines taskmanaging 1000+ programs just for the hell of it*

I think I would probably invest in conglomerating Amazon, Google, Wikipedia and whatever else I could fit and make big bucks. That, or have it used to make the most comprehensive collection of music on the net and try to underhand iTunes. And since there would still be a lot more room to spare, I'd [steal] that idea earlier about renting photospace or just plain memory space, and as much memory required to ensure protection against hax0rz.
But then again I have no economics knowledge, just a lot of stupid ideas :/

[Claverhouse]

The figure I saw might possibly (and stupidly) have excluded the porn industry. I'm pretty sure it was a fairly specific definition... it didn't include downloadables that you needed something else to open. They were probably just guessing a number that sounded right anyway.
Obviously, we need a definite figure. Perhaps there could be an INTPCentral Scholarship to enable a trustworthy researcher to visit and count up every porn-page on the internet.

Unfortunately I'm not available, being a devout follower of the 'Easily Bored' religion, but no doubt someone would volunteer.


Claverhouse :ph34r:

[CreativeChaos]

Originally posted by Polystom:
Yottabytes could enslave all the nerds (possibly) but can yottabytes travel at numerous multiples of c?


Yottabytes can't. But Alpha-Omegabytes are everywhere. You just haven't been able to detect them yet. :ph34r:


(just a little computer religion ;) )

[Crazy]

Well, first off I would get a processor that could handle that much memory without taking more than a few seconds, then, I would download my brain and live forever, HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA(/evil laugh)

[Arcael]

Obviously, we need a definite figure. Perhaps there could be an INTPCentral Scholarship to enable a trustworthy researcher to visit and count up every porn-page on the internet.

Unfortunately I'm not available, being a devout follower of the 'Easily Bored' religion, but no doubt someone would volunteer.


Claverhouse :ph34r:
I could do most of it, but leave out all the freaky and homosexual stuff :P.

[Ritchell]

Do they even make yottabytes? I figure I'd put every shred of literature and art that I could find. I figure with a yottabyte, once you fill it up with the internet's goodness, it becomes like the internet offline. You would need a very good desktop search engine or superior organizational skills.

[jimkopelli]

Or both. I don't think they actually make yottabytes, not yet, anyway. Theoretically you could hook one up to your compy, you'd just need (scribbles furiously) a shite-load of current hard drives and a custom compy, power source, and OS to handle it and keep track of all the drives. At the moment, a single solid yotta would be unwieldy, inefficient and slow.


I could do most of it, but leave out all the freaky and homosexual stuff .
You'd have to get all of it, otherwise it wouldn't be an accurate compilation. Nobody said it would have to be a one person job, either... you'd just have to find someone to cover all the stuff you couldn't deal with... and it'd take less time, to boot. Spread it around all you want.


Well, first off I would get a processor that could handle that much memory without taking more than a few seconds, then, I would download my brain and live forever, HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA(/evil laugh)
The problem with being immortal is that you don't know that you'll live forever, you can just hope and prepare for contingencies. You'd need some sort of secret lair... and 37 backup generators and stuff.

[snarled]

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meh.;P

[Claverhouse]

Imagine the annoyance when the OS gets corrupt or you hear that clunk, zift, clunk sound from the disks...



Claverhouse :ph34r:


[ You really need another yottabyte for regular back-up. ]

[Warrior413]

Make sure to defrag your yottabyte at least every four centuries. Viruses and blackouts could pose a problem... oops, there goes all of human history. Well damn, I knew I should've snagged that new power supply.

[avidApathy]

i would get all my programming friends together and with their help we would create the biggest virus hub for the www EVER. muwahahahahah (the virus would steal your programs and save them on my yottabyte...now i control all knowledge in the world...you lose)

[mgb]

Probably the same thing I would do with my 80 gigabytes. Not much. A game or two. Maybe some nice backgrounds. I would still only have 2 icons on my desktop.

I really hate clutter.

[cloakable]

Or both. I don't think they actually make yottabytes, not yet, anyway.

Well, they do make TB NAS drives, so you only (heh) need 1,099,511,627,776 hard drives. Get a large warehouse, one fuck of a power supply, and probably UNIX/Linux. Winblows probably wouldn't cope with a YB.


Well, first off I would get a processor that could handle that much memory without taking more than a few seconds, then, I would download my brain and live forever, HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA(/evil laugh)

Possible, the last time I made a check in that direction, the estimate was 100 TB. But it's not the storage thats the problem it's that the human brain, from a computer perspective, is a massively parallel processing system, that is, multiple processors working together. That's what you'd need to support a similicrum of a mind. And the 100 TB, of course.

Why yes, I have given it serious consideration, why do you ask? :nerd:

[Kreka29]

i would get all my programming friends together and with their help we would create the biggest virus hub for the www EVER. muwahahahahah (the virus would steal your programs and save them on my yottabyte...now i control all knowledge in the world...you lose)

wouldn't you just be surrounded by idiots then? XD

[carbon cold]

Newbie, please don't necromance uselessly. :/ It makes me want to strangle kittens when I start mistakenly reading 2005 posts with modern day.

[Meliora]

wouldn't you just be surrounded by idiots then? XD

Ah, 2005! Such a simpler time, I was still in community college and had the world ahead of me. Now all I have is an island full of savages on the horizon.

[durentu]

record a HUGE table of simple math solutions. This way, calculations would always be O(1) and only jump around the lookup table, instead of actually processing it long hand via ALU. With photonics, this would be the* fastest ALU possible and only limited by speed of light and its geometry/organization

[Kreka29]

Newbie, please don't necromance uselessly. :/ It makes me want to strangle kittens when I start mistakenly reading 2005 posts with modern day.

Sorrie, it was something that caught my eye...

[NoahFence]

There is no Yottabyte. We're still in the Exabyte stratum.

Just the facts, ma'am...

As of March 2010, the global monthly Internet traffic is estimated to be 21 exabytes.

As of May 2009, the size of the World's total Digital content has been roughly estimated to be 500 billion gigabytes, or 500 exabytes.

According to an IDC paper sponsored by EMC Corporation, 161 exabytes of data were created in 2006, "3 million times the amount of information contained in all the books ever written," with the number expected to hit 988 exabytes in 2010.

According to the June 2009 update of the Cisco Visual Networking Index IP traffic forecast, by 2013, annual global IP traffic will reach two-thirds of a zettabyte or 667 exabytes. Internet video will generate over 18 exabytes per month in 2013. Global mobile data traffic will grow at a CAGR of 131 percent between 2008 and 2013, reaching over two exabytes per month by 2013.

According to CSIRO, in the next decade, astronomers expect to be processing 10 petabytes of data every hour from the Square Kilometre Array telescope. The array is thus expected to generate approximately one exabyte every four days of operation.

A Berkeley study claims that "all words ever spoken by human beings" could be stored in approximately 5 exabytes of data (as text!!! As .wav files it would be more like 40 zettabytes).

According to the June 2009 update of the Cisco Visual Networking Index IP traffic forecast, by 2013, annual global IP traffic will reach two-thirds of a zettabyte or 667 exabytes. Internet video will generate over 18 exabytes per month in 2013. Global mobile data traffic will grow at a CAGR of 131 percent between 2008 and 2013, reaching over two exabytes per month by 2013.

According to the Digital Britain Report 494 Exabytes of data was transferred across the globe on 15 June 2009.

According to IBM, the new SKA telescope initiative will generate over an exabyte of data every day. IBM is designing hardware to process this information.

[kuranes]

Maybe we'll need www.anagran.com routers to keep track of it all....

[ApeTheDog]

That was such a subtle plug, kuranes.

[kuranes]

That was such a subtle plug, kuranes.
Hmmm. ???? It's not like I work for these guys.

[ApeTheDog]

That router doesn't do anything special that other high-end ones don't do, as far as I can tell. What is it that makes this one worthy of referencing?

[kuranes]

That router doesn't do anything special that other high-end ones don't do, as far as I can tell. What is it that makes this one worthy of referencing?You're saying that you think Cisco routers can do the same ? You can't have spent much time at the linked website.

http://i46.tinypic.com/6zq15e.gif

[ApeTheDog]

You're saying that you think Cisco routers can do the same ? You can't have spent much time at the linked website.

I haven't. It looks like they're trying to act like they invented QoS. Cisco can do that. So can any other non small-office/home router.

Not trying to be annoying. Just thought it was strange to mention a specific type of router when it looks to be doing nothing out of the ordinary.

Edit: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiprotocol_Label_Switching

[kuranes]

I haven't. It looks like they're trying to act like they invented QoS. Cisco can do that. So can any other non small-office/home router. This is way beyond QoS, is my understanding.


Not trying to be annoying. Yes, you are.:grin:

[ApeTheDog]

I am annoying without trying :)

It looks like multiprotocol label switching. And I just don't like all the marketing lameness where people pretend they invented the wheel when all they're doing is stealing an existing idea and giving it a new catchy name.

[kuranes]

It looks like multiprotocol label switching. I agree that MPLS has been around for a while.
And I just don't like all the marketing lameness where people pretend they invented the wheel when all they're doing is stealing an existing idea and giving it a new catchy name.I don't like that either. I wouldn't have posted this link if that's what I thought was happening.

The inventor here is not someone who is always coming out with the latest trendy thing. This is the first new technology he's come up with since...being one of the guys who originally assisted in inventing the internet itself.

You admitted not reading the site over very thoroughly. Why don't you do that before calling bullshit.

Edit - Here's a link to an article about the company. If you're saying that "DPI" has been around for a while, and there are other companies that can do it, you'd be right about that. But this is not DPI, although even infrastructure providers effectively using DPI more often would probably be an improvement over the status quo, is my understanding.

http://www.lightreading.com/document.asp?doc_id=130843

Another article which has some redundant info ^ and some new info..
http://spectrum.ieee.org/computing/networks/a-radical-new-router/0

One could look at a can of spam and a well cooked filet mignon steak and broadly declare that "they're both just pieces of meat"; and be both correct and wrong. I'm not denying any connection whatsoever to MPLS or data transmission quality etc.

http://forums.intpcentral.com/showpost.php?p=1286271&postcount=1