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Author: Derek Trotter
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To: Main PLUG discussion list
Subject: Re: AMD vs Intel memory managemement
I read somewhere that a modern scientific calculator is more powerful
than the computers the astronauts in the Apollo program used in the
craft they were riding in to the moon.

On 06/13/2013 02:33 PM, Lyle Tuttle wrote:
> At 08:16 AM 6/13/2013, Eric Cope wrote:
>> what year was that?
>
> 1968 or so
>
>
>
>> On Thu, Jun 13, 2013 at 7:01 AM, Lyle Tuttle <
>> <mailto:l.tuttle@cox.net>> wrote:
>>
>>     In the 'old' days, I worked for the Atomic Energy Commission
>>     designing, building and maintaining computer controlled
>>     experiments using radiation from and located on the face of the
>>     reactor.....our SDS "mainframe" <G> ran ALL experiments
>>     (including some x-ray diffraction projects in remote locations)
>>     in real-time......that computer had 16K core memory.......and
>>     people came from all over the world to see what we were
>>     doing....now a watch has more memory.....

>>
>>     Time flies, and the only constant is change......   Â

>>
>>     At 10:26 PM 6/12/2013, Derek Trotter wrote:
>>>         Anyone remember the old days when we thought 64k RAM and a
>>>         5MB hard drive was a fast machine?

>>>
>>>         On 06/12/2013 06:12 PM, Bryan O'Neal wrote:
>>>>             Yes - I am not saying my entire farm has that much ram.
>>>>             You can get away with much, much less, but I have
>>>>             servers that go that high.

>>>>
>>>>
>>>>             On Wed, Jun 12, 2013 at 5:49 PM, keith smith
>>>>             < <mailto:klsmith2020@yahoo.com>>
>>>>             wrote:

>>>>
>>>>                 Did I read that right you have 768GB of RAM?

>>>>
>>>>                 ------------------------ 
>>>>                 Keith Smith
>>>>                 --- On Wed, 6/12/13, Bryan O'Neal
>>>>                 <>
>>>>                 <mailto:Bryan.ONeal@TheONealAndAssociates.com> wrote:

>>>>
>>>>                     From: Bryan O'Neal
>>>>                     <>
>>>>                     <mailto:Bryan.ONeal@TheONealAndAssociates.com>
>>>>                     Subject: Re: AMD vs Intel memory managemement 
>>>>                     To: "Main PLUG discussion list"
>>>>                     <
>>>>                     <mailto:plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org>> 
>>>>                     Date: Wednesday, June 12, 2013, 5:45 PM

>>>>
>>>>                     This is kinda new to me - Just so I am clear -
>>>>                     unganged systems would perform better if I have
>>>>                     say - a caching system with limited threads
>>>>                     each pined to a specific core (we do this for
>>>>                     processor cache anyway) while ganged systems
>>>>                     would perform better it I was spinning up a new
>>>>                     thread for each request and had a large amount
>>>>                     (say 768GB) of ram running something like
>>>>                     PostgreSQL where threads are being fired up and
>>>>                     down many thousands of times a second but the
>>>>                     data they seek is mostly in main memory.

>>>>
>>>>                     On Wed, Jun 5, 2013 at 1:36 PM, Stephen
>>>>                     <
>>>>                     <http://mc/compose?to=cryptworks@gmail.com>>
>>>>                     wrote:

>>>>
>>>>                         On-board bios usually will not allocate
>>>>                         that much however. And by usually will not
>>>>                         I mean I have never sen it do so, even in
>>>>                         the days of ghetto ram thieving by graphics
>>>>                         chip-sets.

>>>>
>>>>                         On Wed, Jun 5, 2013 at 12:29 PM, Eric
>>>>                         Shubert <
>>>>                         <http://mc/compose?to=ejs@shubes.net>> wrote:

>>>>
>>>>                             On 06/03/2013 01:46 PM, Nathan England
>>>>                             wrote:

>>>>
>>>>                                 But why does CentOS not register
>>>>                                 all of my memory? Why less than 3/4
>>>>                                 of it?

>>>>
>>>>
>>>>                             Perhaps the bios has allocated a chunk
>>>>                             of it to onboard video?
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>>>>
>>>>             Stephen

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