On 8/29/2012 8:57 AM, Edward Ned Harvey (lopser) wrote:
I happen to support a lot of high mem high performance jobs, including EDA tools, with sims that will consume 100G+ memory... I haven't yet seen the situation where we deemed the cost of the hardware upgrade to be the most significant factor.
from 384GB to 768GB is a huge jump. the 16GB to 32GB dimms is about 4x the price. the price per system jumps from the $20k area to the $80k area.
Also, we tend to steer clear of the exotic quad processor and stacked motherboards since they are far less tested in the field than dual socket off-the-shelf versions. (they also cost a lot more).
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