What does eGranary mean for The Island and its 120 CX1 network. Well basically if we keep the same configuration the island can hold 480 computing blades and 480 other storage blades.
8*2TO*480
7680TO in total.
That can be served over WLAN which covers most of The Island. And if even a third of it is in webpages that we can cache then we will have invented the on demand internet. Which consists of cached pages updated in real time and served as a local resource over WLAN or LAN.
eGranary can provide us with a leaner internet as researchers and students tend to research the same resources often now we can both propose them or cache them as they are accessed. It is not all of the internet, it is the internet our users use.
And we are betting that it is a faster internet as well for resources that have been cached.
So CX1 can serve that function, be the repository of the internet resources that we use.












