16 exabytes (considerably more than 16 TB)

http://www.brighthub.com/computing/windows-platform/articles/51002.aspx
The theoretical memory limit of a 64-bit operating system is 2^64 (i.e. 2 
raised to the 64th power) which equals
18,446,744,073,709,551,616 bytes (16 exabytes). To make things easier, this is 
about 18,446,744,073 GB

Read more: 
http://www.brighthub.com/computing/windows-platform/articles/51002.aspx#ixzz1EGcqLGmu



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Paul McNett" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, February 17, 2011 3:01 PM
Subject: Re: [NF] Jeopardy and Watson

Further research seems to indicate that 64-bit Linux can do more than 16 
Terabytes of
RAM, *per process*. But I really don't know...

Paul


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