On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 2:10 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > One conversion on cnbc said that Watson had 16 TB memory. > > I guess IBM gets a quantity discount. I wonder what operating system is able > to have that as main memory or was it set > up as a 'memory disk' like we had in the old dos days. ---------------------
I got a tour of the St Jude replacement computer for their Cray. Probably back in 04-05. It was a pair or racks filled with a 1 U 4 processor 8 or 16 gig server that were wired in parallel to allow full use of CPUs and ram. the hard disk system was in it's own rack for 100 TB of space. The Oracle db was over 20 TB just for this app and had a hot backup of it loaded just in case. This was a specialized unit that did gene generation algorithms. The Cray took 6 days to run the code and this new beast could do it in 7 hours. Not sure what they got in hardware to grow the gene(s) when done. -- Stephen Russell Sr. Production Systems Programmer CIMSgts 901.246-0159 cell _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[email protected] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
