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Chapter 287 Hard Drives and Patents

Compared with ordinary PCs, servers have higher requirements in terms of stability, security, performance, etc., so hardware such as CPUs, chipsets, memory, disk systems, and networks are different from ordinary PCs. To read the latest chapters, please lock the biquge.info of Aishang Novels

For example, although the performance of the current SFC is very good, it may not be suitable for use on the server, and it is necessary to enhance the stability of the server.

If there is a problem with an ordinary user's personal computer, it doesn't matter, just restart it and you're done, even if the chip is broken, it doesn't matter, it's a big deal to not use the computer today.

The server is different, because it is connected to the Internet, and the server must ensure its stability.

In terms of categories, servers include mainframes, minicomputers, and microcomputers.

For the average business, they may need a small computer. That's why Catherine asked Olsen to come over - no one prefers a small computer more than Olson.

"College students? In that case, they shouldn't be very demanding on the server. I think we can just tune these websites into our big servers, and then just pull up the data of various universities and companies. ”

"But the question is, the price of the big server is cheap, will they change it?" Ralph knew that if he switched to a minicomputer, the cost of building a separate station would increase a lot......

"This ......" Olsen was also stumped for a moment.

"Olson, if we build a minicomputer that serves as a server, how much will it cost? What if it's a microcomputer? ”

"In terms of cost, I think I might need to discuss it with a technician. What the server needs is stability, which is somewhat inconsistent with the performance of the computer we are pursuing now. But IBM 360 has something to learn from. ”

Catherine's company also purchased two IBM 360 mainframes. One of them was used as R&D software, while the other had been completely disassembled by Intel employees for research.

After all, IBM has been developing for so many years, and IBM's 360 computer has invested as much as 5 billion, and Catherine's ARK may not have so much money even if it quadruples its market value - so there are many technologies that IBM can learn from.

Of course, simple plagiarism is too untechnical. And after IBM finds out that ARK is plagiarizing, I'm afraid they will be the first to laugh - a lawsuit, ARK will be 100% dragged down, and its reputation will be completely ruined.

"Hmm...... Ralph, is our server no longer available? ”

"No, but it's not far from the limit, if the current rate of website increase continues, in two months, I'm afraid our server won't be able to host."

It looks like there's still room for manoeuvre.

“…… Ralph, let's add a set of servers for now. ”

With the Celeron supercomputer at its core, such a server is expensive, but the millions of dollars are clearly more important than the company's reputation.

"Okay."

Catherine took matters to order, and began to think about how to run the server.

In the future, there are five types of servers.

The first is the entry-level server, which is the most basic and lowest-grade server. However, Catherine thinks that if it is for student users, this kind of server is also worth learning from; Then there is the workgroup server, which can only be connected to one workgroup (about 50 people) as the name suggests, which can only be connected to one workgroup (about 50 people); Then there are departmental servers, which are probably the first choice for small and medium-sized businesses; Then there are enterprise-level servers, some of which use even mainframes as the core; Finally, there's the video server, which Catherine won't deal with for at least five years, so it's not considered.

For a server, the performance design goal of the server is how to balance the performance of each part to achieve the optimal performance of the whole system. If a server has the ability to process 1000 service requests per second, but the NIC can only accept 200 requests, the hard disk can only bear 150, and the load capacity of various buses can only bear 100 requests, then the server can only process 100 requests per second, which is more than 80% of the processor's computing power.

So the performance of the server is not necessarily higher than that of the PC, but it must be more balanced and more stable.

These are easy to solve, and the current memory can support up to 4MB, as long as you add a few more memory sticks, you can do it.

But on the other hand, Catherine's company has a weakness......

"Hard drive, ah......"

Although there are other storage solutions for personal computers nowadays, personal computers do not need large hard disks, but servers do......

"What about the hard drive!"

Catherine suddenly thought of such a stern question.

"Isn't it okay to use a read-only ROM? Just like today's computers. It seemed strange for Elsa to see Catherine so distressed.

"No, it's different. The content of the website needs to be updated, and if you only use a read-only memory, you need a hard disk that can write and read at any time. And this hard disk is only used by IBM. ”

"So you have to buy a lot of hard drives from IBM?" Elsa seemed to understand what was going on.

"It can't be! No way! ”

Catherine struggled in her chair, and she was tsundere again......

"What if...... Can we get IBM to license it to us? ”

"Do you think they will?" Catherine was a little funny.

"Maybe......"

Elsa tilted her head. ARK and IBM seem to have a deep grudge?

"No, maybe it can ......"

Catherine reacted suddenly.

"What can be?"

"Of course, you can get them to give us permission! Just like Motorola, swap patents! ”

Elsa seems to be thinking about what patents in the company would interest IBM without harming the company's interests.

At this time, Catherine seemed to come to the spirit: "Maybe our 'three-phase number jù optical drive technology' can be exchanged?" ”

The so-called "three-phase number jù optical drive technology" is the company's optical drive technology with three optical heads. But there's a catch...... IBM will really either?

Although this technology looks good, as long as it is not a graphical operation interface like your own company, the storage capacity requirements of the software are not very large. Catherine didn't want to tell anyone else the secrets of the optical drive and computer system.

After all, the graphical interface is Catherine's killer feature.

The news that I want to develop a graphical operation interface has been told to everyone at last year's developer conference.,If you shake out the CD-ROM thing again...... There's a good chance IBM knows what it's going to do. Although the other party will not come over to seize their own market, it is still possible to stumble on themselves.

"What a hassle...... Do we want to develop our own hard drives? Catherine pouted.

"Actually, we can do the same." Elsa said.

"But it's too late......"

Elsa was a little puzzled: "But...... Don't we also use IBM hard drives in our current servers? ”

"That's why I don't want to use it anymore."

Catherine was wailing.

"And even if we develop it now, it's not necessarily better than IBM, they have magnetoresistance...... Wait a minute. ”

Catherine immediately made another call.

"Help me check whether there is a patent for magnetoresistive head technology in IBM's registered patent, which is used on hard disks."

"Magnetoresistive heads? What is that? ”

"A technology that is used on hard drives."

Catherine vaguely remembers that this should be a technology from the 80s, also developed by IBM, but she doesn't quite remember whether the other party is using this technology now. Catherine knew about hard drives, but only about them.

After a long struggle, the phone finally rang.

"Miss Edson, we haven't found any information about this technology on IBM's hard drives."

mrgneto-resitivehead) is the abbreviation of magnetoresistive head. MR technology can increase the actual recording density and number of records, thereby increasing the capacity of the hard disk and increasing the throughput rate.

The giant reluctance technology and the disk vertical writing technology that appeared later were all based on this magnetoresistive head.

When Catherine heard this, she almost jumped with joy, and then the other party's next sentence made Catherine instantly impotent.

"But...... We found the relevant content on IBM's core memory patent, which is the 'magnetoresistive effect'. ”

"Well, that's it."

Catherine shook her head, it seemed that there was something she couldn't force herself.

"What's wrong?"

"This technology is already being used in core memory...... Hell, this happens. ”

The reluctance head can't get around this patent at all! If you develop your own reluctance head, you will be making a wedding dress for IBM!

"If it's a core memory...... The patent is more than 10 years old and should be ...... Doesn't work, right? ”

Elsa's words reminded Catherine.

"That's right! Patents are invalid! ”

Catherine became excited again, and if she insisted on saying it, magnetoresistance was also discovered in 1857, although it was used in the 60s of the 20th century, but the theory itself has appeared for more than a hundred years, even if IBM sued itself, in the end it could only be a mutual bargain.

Then she stood up all at once and gave Elsa a hug.

"Awesome, Elsa, I like you so much......"

"Hmm......" Elsa blushed and tilted her face to the other side.

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