new memory record for me

[Eric Cope]

In-memory database:
http://voltdb.com/products-services/products

On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 9:44 AM, keith smith <klsmith2020 at yahoo.com> wrote:

>
> Ok,  Thank you.
>
> So one CPU? and all that RAM?
>
> ------------------------
> Keith Smith
>
> --- On *Tue, 9/18/12, Matt Graham <danceswithcrows at usa.net>* wrote:
>
>
> From: Matt Graham <danceswithcrows at usa.net>
> Subject: Re: new memory record for me
> To: "Main PLUG discussion list" <plug-discuss at lists.plug.phoenix.az.us>
> Date: Tuesday, September 18, 2012, 9:02 AM
>
>
> From: keith smith <klsmith2020 at yahoo.com<http://mc/compose?to=klsmith2020@yahoo.com>
> >
> > I must admit I know little about computer architecture and OSes at
> > this level, however it seems multiple computers would be better than
> > one big one.  What is the advantage to so much RAM in one computer?
>
> "If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use: Two strong oxen
> or
> 1024 chickens?" --Seymour Cray
>
> Some problems are difficult or impossible to break up into parts that can
> be
> run in parallel.  This huge system may be working on one of those
> problems.
> And there's the inherent coolness factor in having as much RAM as regular
> computers had disk a couple of years ago.  How fast would our DB server
> return
> results if it could just load all ~100G of tables into RAM?  Probably 10
> times
> faster than it does, which is always nice.
>
> --
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