Hearns, John wrote: >> What do you intend to use the machines for? >> For a chessprogram they would be great, but none of those guys has >> the cash to pay for these >> machines. >> > > > > The Supermicro board which Bruce Goglin refers to is said to support > 16gbytes DIMMS. > > Quick Google says $944 dollars per DIMM, so $60 000 memory cost for a > 1024 Gbyte machine, > plus you can cook your dinner on it. > LOL.. (I have to admit that's kinda funny, but only because it's true)
I didn't look at the specs, but I wonder how many IOPS you could get off a ram disk on that thing.. $60k is I believe (I could be wrong) in the same ballpark as 1T 1U 1million IOPS appliances (albeit they offer persistence and probably consume less power as well) _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org sponsored by Penguin Computing To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
