Then there is Supermicro.. They have 4U/tower systems that will take
192GB ram:
http://supermicro.com/products/system/tower/
I'm not sure if they still are but they were a big supplier to google
who we know are big into DIY (i.e. they are a hardware only vendor I think).
Kim Yong wrote:
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]
<mailto:[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]
<mailto:[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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