Barry Smith <[email protected]> writes: > But what about a non-HPC machine? Not everyone has huge machines > but how about a well-endowed server quality workstation setup with > the best disks available? Put as much physical memory as possible > and then use the disks for out of core.
Sure, you can put SSDs in a workstation. Then disk space is an order of magnitude cheaper than RAM and only a couple orders of magnitude slower than RAM. It depends on your workload, but this doesn't scale well so very few large machines are configured this way.
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