Flash Forward the World's Greatest Games

Over the last two weeks the world witnessed an impressive array FLASH FORWARDM THE WORLD'S GREATEST GAMES of athletic accomplishments, including 27 world records broken. Over the centuries, athletic world records have been improved and broken incrementally. The same can be said for storage technology. Until now. As flash memory transforms the enterprise by breaking technology barriers, take a look at the super-human athletic feats that could be achieved if the World's Greatest Games had similar breakthroughs. Here are five examples. FORMANCE DENSIT RELIABILITITINE SPEED 40 53 15* DENSER QUICKER FASTER CAPACITY ENERGY EFFICIENCY 5" 10° FFICIEN MORE SMALLER PERFORMANCE DENSITY It takes 40 shelves of disk to do 1 million IOPS, but only one shelf of flash. That's equal to lifting a double decker bus (23,200 lbs) or 40 times the Clean and Jerk Olympic Record.1 580 Ibs 23,200 Ibs SPEED Latency with flash is 53 times faster than with disk. If the current Olympic record for the 50 meters (1 length of an Olympic-sized pool) freestyle is 21.30 seconds, a flash athlete would swim 53 laps in the 1 length same amount of time.? 53 lengths RELIABILITY/TIME Database performance is 15 times faster with flash than with disk. Usain Bolt holds the current 100 meter record of 9.63 seconds. On flash, he would complete the 100 meter dash in 0.64 seconds. On disk, he would only run 6.67 meters in the same time.3 000064 6.67 m 100 m ENERGY EFFICIENCY 350 calories Flash requires 1/5th the power and cooling required by disk. If Kenenisa Bekele, record holder in the men's 5,000 meter run, was as efficient as flash, he could run his gold medal time and only burn 70 calories (rather than the 350 calories he would normally burn) – the same energy required just to walk across London's Tower Bridge (244 meters).4 70 calories 244 m 12.5 laps = 5,000 m 70 calories 70 calories CAPACITY Flash needs 1/10th the amount of space compared to disk. That's equivalent to fitting all the spectators at the Olympics (800,000 people) into the Olympic Stadium (80,000 people).5 = 5,000 people SOURCES: 1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clean_and_jerk 4. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/5000_metres violin http://www.london2012.com/weightlifting/about/ http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/buildingbig/wonder/structure/tower.html http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20071023013647AAhbMHd 5. http://www.etravelblackboard.us/article/101281/london-olympics-set-to- MEMORY http://wiki.answers.com/Q/11_tons_equal_to_how_many_pounds draw-800000-spectators 2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Olympic_records_in_swimming http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/rel/regional-trends/region-and-country- 3. http://www.databaseolympics.com/sport/sportevent.htm?enum=110&sp=ATH profiles/population-and-migration/population-and-migration--london.html