Christopher Samuel wrote:
> I've heard 1TB of RAM quoted by the bioinfomatics people
> as the amount of RAM needed to do de-novo reassembly of
> the human genome with Velvet (which is a single threaded
> application).
That would be an expensive thing to do though, much more efficient to
paint the
On 2/10/11 11:52 AM, Stuart Barkley wrote:
> On Wed, 9 Feb 2011 at 09:38 -, Prentice Bisbal wrote:
>
>> About 6 months ago, I purchased a couple of Dell PowerEdge R815s
>> with 128 GB of RAM and 32 cores. We looked at similar RAM
>> configurations a couple of years ago. and the cost premium for
On Wed, 9 Feb 2011 at 09:38 -, Prentice Bisbal wrote:
> About 6 months ago, I purchased a couple of Dell PowerEdge R815s
> with 128 GB of RAM and 32 cores. We looked at similar RAM
> configurations a couple of years ago. and the cost premium for that
> much RAM was prohibitive (the price for a
