Okay the Octane 3 workstation runs on Intel X86-64 upto 288 GB. Altix Midrange server 450 supports up to 854 GB Altix 4700 BX2 up to 128 TB
The bulk of the system cost is probably the RAM chip , running at max cap, these are DDR2 32 GB DIMM modules for the Itanium Servers. On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 10:28 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > LUGS Mailing list - [email protected] > > > > List FAQ: http://wiki.lugs.org.sg/LugsMailingListFaq > > > > Info page: http://www.lugs.org.sg/mailman/listinfo/slugnet > > > > To unsubscribe send an empty email to: [email protected] > > > -- There's no place like ~
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