128 Gigabytes, to be exact. This makes our little laptop feel a bit envious. But then again, can you imagine the size of the computer to house this much RAM?
What would you do with all of this added memory? Its owners, the Monash Cluster Computing group are probably doing something scientific. It makes us wonder when will hundreds of gigs become the norm.
Um, not very big, given that I have a 1 TB (1,000 GB) backup drive at home that's smaller than an average laptop...
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128 GB wouldn't be very much space if what she is referencing were a hard drive. Buts its memory. RAM.
Your computer likely has 1GB or less. 2GB if you've splurged (or use it for graphics) So, in fact, it is a lot.
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That has almost 4x as much RAM as I have as normal HDD space on my laptop :*( but it probably cost 4x as much as my laptop ... :)
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I wonder how long before this much memory will be about the size of a dime?
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When clustering, 128GB is not all that much. A moderate cluster can easily have 10x that much RAM. For example, one cluster I run jobs on has 256 dual processor nodes, each with 4GB of RAM, for a total of 1024GB. This particular cluster is nowhere near the top of the heap. The BlueGene L at Livermore has 131072 processors, each with 256megs of RAM, or 32,768GB of RAM. (EEK!)
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Oops.. I under-speced the cluster I use- it actually has 8GB for each node (4GB per processor), for a total of 2048GB.
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