Hi John and Ed,
Yowsers! That's really tiny! Just in my career - The first machine I was paid to work with was a 4341 with 8MB and 8 channels. My IPhone has 32MB. The possibilities of 2.5 Petabytes is, well, an awful lot. I can't help but wonder what some of the early computing pioneers would think of this. Linda ----- Original Message ----- From: "John P. Baker" <hfdte...@comporium.net> To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Sent: Saturday, January 14, 2012 8:08:48 PM Subject: Re: IBM researchers make 12-atom magnetic memory bit Linda, What is interesting about this development is that according to Dr. Loth, by increasing the number of atoms from 12 to perhaps 200 it may be possible to make the storage technology stable at room temperatures. AFAIK, the highest density RDIMM storage currently available provides 16 GB per module. This technology could theoretically push that to 128 TB per module. The largest motherboard memory capacity I have seen is 288 GB (18 RDIMMs of 16 GB each). In a few years, this technology could permit the production of computers have a storage capacity as high as 2.5 Petabytes (2.5 x 10^15 bytes). John P. Baker -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Linda Mooney Sent: Saturday, January 14, 2012 9:58 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: IBM researchers make 12-atom magnetic memory bit Greetings All! Found this article on the BBC today. IBM researchers make 12-atom magnetic memory bit http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-16543497 Linda ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
