new memory record for me

2012-09-18 Thread Steven A. DuChene
Last year I spent the summer working at the Intel benchmarking center in Dupont, WA and some of you might recall me posting about some large memory systems there with 256GB of memory. At the time that was the most memory I had personally witnessed running in a Linux server (RH6.1 to be exact).

Re: new memory record for me

2012-09-18 Thread keith smith
computer with lots of RAM versus something like a Beowulf cluster? Keith Smith --- On Tue, 9/18/12, Steven A. DuChene linux-clust...@mindspring.com wrote: From: Steven A. DuChene linux-clust...@mindspring.com Subject: new memory record for me To: PLUG-discuss

Re: new memory record for me

2012-09-18 Thread Matt Graham
From: keith smith klsmith2...@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

Re: new memory record for me

2012-09-18 Thread keith smith
Ok,  Thank you. So one CPU? and all that RAM?  Keith Smith --- On Tue, 9/18/12, Matt Graham danceswithcr...@usa.net wrote: From: Matt Graham danceswithcr...@usa.net Subject: Re: new memory record for me To: Main PLUG discussion list plug-discuss

Re: new memory record for me

2012-09-18 Thread Eric Cope
: From: Matt Graham danceswithcr...@usa.net Subject: Re: new memory record for me To: Main PLUG discussion list plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us Date: Tuesday, September 18, 2012, 9:02 AM From: keith smith klsmith2...@yahoo.comhttp://mc/compose?to=klsmith2...@yahoo.com I must