From: keith smith <klsmith2...@yahoo.com> > I must admit I know little about computer architecture and OSes at > this level, however it seems multiple computers would be better than > one big one. What is the advantage to so much RAM in one computer?
"If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use: Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?" --Seymour Cray Some problems are difficult or impossible to break up into parts that can be run in parallel. This huge system may be working on one of those problems. And there's the inherent coolness factor in having as much RAM as regular computers had disk a couple of years ago. How fast would our DB server return results if it could just load all ~100G of tables into RAM? Probably 10 times faster than it does, which is always nice. -- Matt G / Dances With Crows The Crow202 Blog: http://crow202.org/wordpress/ There is no Darkness in Eternity/But only Light too dim for us to see --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
