In-memory database: http://voltdb.com/products-services/products On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 9:44 AM, keith smith wrote: > > Ok, Thank you. > > So one CPU? and all that RAM? > > ------------------------ > Keith Smith > > --- On *Tue, 9/18/12, Matt Graham * wrote: > > > From: Matt Graham > Subject: Re: new memory record for me > To: "Main PLUG discussion list" > Date: Tuesday, September 18, 2012, 9:02 AM > > > From: keith smith > > > > 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. > > -- > Matt G / Dances With Crows > The Crow202 Blog: http://crow202.org/wordpress/ > There is no Darkness in Eternity/But only Light too dim for us to see > > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >