Hi Peter,
A new 8-way Opteron system supporting 64GB of system RAM was recently
released by HPC Systems:
http://www.hpcsystems.com/products/svr_a5880hs.html
Because the memory controller resides on the CPU in Opteron systems, all
8 CPUs must be populated, but this can be achieved with the
slowe
Shane wrote:
> As for more indirect solutions like RAM disks... I think you would
> loose at least a factor of ten in speed compared to simply accessing
> system memory directly as you would need to go through the file system
> and out to an external device with RAM in it pretending to be a disk.
>
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