On Sun, 2011-01-30 at 17:39 +0100, Leen Besselink wrote: > On 01/25/2011 11:06 PM, Owen DeLong wrote: > > If IPv4 is like 640k, then, IPv6 is like having > > 47,223,664,828,696,452,136,959 > > terabytes of RAM. I'd argue that while 640k was short sighted, I think it is > > unlikely we will see machines with much more than a terabyte of RAM > > in the lifetime of IPv6. > > > I would be very careful with such predictions. How about 2 TB of RAM ?: > > "...IBM can cram 1 TB of memory into a 4U chassis or 2 TB in an > eight-socket box in two 4U chassis..." > > http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/04/01/ibm_xeon_7500_servers/page2.html > http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/04/01/ibm_xeon_7500_servers/ > > I don't know who will use it or how much they will need to pay for it or > even when they will be available, > but they are talking about it (in this case at the last CEBIT in March). > > People are building some very big systems for example with lots and lots > of virtual machines.
On dell.com you can buy a PowerEdge R910 with 1TB RAM for around $80k. Laurent