Hi Jun Hao,
have you tried SGI? If you want absolutely HUGE amount of memory SGI Altix
BX2 series can take more than 1TB of RAM in a single system. Infact I had
personally benchmarked one a few years back with 0.5 TB. Further more it is
not just about the amount but also the IO within the system to handle the
transfer. Furthermore, SGI had just introduced a new workstation running on
X86-64. The capacity for this machine is about 400+ GB i think. I was
involved in the sale of a BX2 to Dept of Computational Science in NUS a few
years back for a BX2 with couple of hundred GB ram... It was 192 i think,
you might want to talk to the people to test it. Not sure if it is
decommissioned.
Regards,
Kim Yong
On Oct 15, 2009 9:26pm, Koo Jun Hao <[email protected]> wrote:
Dear all,
Does anyone have experience in Big Iron machines (HUGE RAM running 64bit
applications) running Linux? Particularly, I am wondering which companies
are reputable and the price ranges these things cost.
Background: I am asked to compile a wish list for budgeting (5 years
masterplan kind of thing). Computational biology infrastructure
requirements are becoming out-of-the-world, with huge datasets (>1
Terabytes each) and huge RAM requirements (> 48GB of RAM per job); I
don't even know where to start looking for such machines.
Thanks for your help and advice!
--
Regards,
Junhao
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