if you pushed it it could lock up your system, but maybe adequate to
keep your system from locking up if you run barely over, rarely.
we actually aim our cluster nodes to fail a job fast if the user code
tries to use too much memory, rather than limp along at 50x slowdown.
I suppose that a bit harsh, but we also provide a wide range of
GB/core configurations.
with 8 GB flash memory holding the OS and several GB of userspace. A
whole new kind of thin.
certainly appealing for laptops and thin clients. I think we're in a funny
stage wrt general desktops and up, though: if you want serious storage,
flash isn't even on the table. but probably your serious storage should be
over a fast network connection, rather than on the desktop or compute node.
Built in would have certain advantages -- USB fobs are too easy to knock
off and are regrettably slow. For clusters I'm not sure -- they are
PATA/SATA-interface flash is accelerating, I think. Intel just introduced
a building block for that, and other vendors have had somewhat obscure
products out for a long time. a flash-based "PATA-fob" seems reasonably
secure to me for this kind of minimal case. 2.5 and 3.5" form-factors for
larger flash-based disks are also popular.
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