Joe Landman wrote: > Prentice Bisbal wrote: >> Vincent Diepeveen wrote: >> >>> Very cheaply you can build nodes now with like 4 cheapo cpu's >>> and 128 GB ram inside. >>> >> >> Not exactly. 2 GB DIMMs are cheap, but as soon as you go to larger DIMMs >> (4 GB, 8 GB, etc.), the price goes up exponentially. >> >> Less than a year ago, we purchased a couple of server with 32 GB RAM. We >> then wanted to purchase one with 64 GB RAM. The cost of the system >> tripled! Instead, we bought 3 more 32 GB systems. > > The cost of 64GB went down quite recently. We have sold quite a few of > these at this size due to memory cost drops. > My experience was 6-9 months ago. >> >> Dell and others advertise systems that support up to 128 GB RAM, but I >> have yet to meet someone who can afford to put all 128 GB RAM in a >> single box. > > We have seen a few. Its not as expensive as you think. 256 GB ... yeah > thats more. > > And again, if you don't mind a quick plug for ScaleMP (we are not > currently a reseller of theirs, we make no money from them), you can tie > a few machines together (various constraints) with lower cost > memory/components, and get some nice sized single system images. Of > course YMMV. > >
Funny you mention ScaleMP. I was thinking the same thing, but forgot to mention it in my last e-mail. I was talking to them at SC08. about that sort of thing. I wonder of cost of ScaleMP is less than large RAM premium. -- Prentice _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, [email protected] To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
